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God's Existence Disproven
Title: God's Existence Disproven
Category: Social Sciences / Philosophy
Details: Words: 952 | Pages: 4.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
God's Existence Disproven
What is God? Who is God? Why do some people conclude that a God exists?
Saint Thomas Aquinas goes from 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
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unsolved mysteries and theories of the universe. However, matter is a better fit.
Overall, I have shown that the argument given by Aquinas only assumes
God, it does not prove it. Matter "is", just as God "is". Furthermore, I have
shown that the explanation of God is not needed and therefore there is no place for
God in the discussion of the first cause. Therefore, God does not exist as a first
efficient cause.
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