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Does God Exist
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....rom the fact that there must be a first
efficient cause to the conclusion that God is that cause. Why must Aquinas
make the extraordinary jump from there being a cause, to assuming that this
cause must be God? Would it not be just as plausible to make matter the first
cause? Matter is the substance that any physical ob.... Part 2 of Paper
....his first cause to
be God. How can anyone rationally conclude that there is a God from the
simple statement that a first cause is necessary? Therefore, a first cause does
not prove God, it only assumes that there is a God, at best. Could one not
put matter in the place of God in Aquinas' argument and still assume there is
a first efficient cause? The theory that matter "is", is just as plausible as the
theory that God "is". Matter is closed and finite in extent, with no beginning
or end. Putting.... |
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