Disproval of proof of God from Aquinas' Meditations
Date Submitted: 11/30/2004 16:29:50
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 6 pages (1703 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 6 pages (1703 words)
Looking at Aquinas' Arguments for the Existence of God <Tab/>In Summa Theologica, Question 2, Article 3, Aquinas attempts to prove the existence of God. He begins with two objections, which will not be addressed here, and continues on to state five arguments for the existence of God. I intend to show that Aquinas' first three arguments are unsound from a scientific standpoint, through support of the Big Bang theory of the creation …
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…third argument is unsound because he states that not every entity can fail to exist, but during singularity all of the matter in the universe is suspended in one lawless and unlocatable point. The lack of governing laws and any way to tell where that point would have been is proof that it may not have existed. The scientific proof of the beginning of the universe renders Aquinas' first three arguments from Summa Theologica unsound.
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