“Does God exist?” is a question many people have asked themselves throughout their life. The two most common arguments about the existence of God are the cosmological argument and the design argument. The cosmological argument has two main ideas which are, the chain of dependent motions and the chain of dependent causes. The design argument, also known as the teleological argument, is a scientific viewpoint towards the creation of the matters on earth. I presume that the cosmological argument is more realistic because there had to be a “First Mover” like Velasquez wrote on page 261 (Velasquez 2015, 261).
Saint Thomas Aquinas stated that “there must be a first mover that is not itself moved, and this is God,” (Velasquez 2015, 261). In other words, since an object is being moved, there has to be something that started the movement and cannot be moved by something else which is, God. There has to be a first mover, God, because without Him there wouldn’t be able to be movers after. As stated in Velasquez’s textbook on page 261, there cannot be just an infinite chain that never had an
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For example, William Paley compared natural organisms to the mechanism of a watch as stated in Velasquez’s textbook on page 267. (Velasquez 2015, 267). On page 604, Gregory writes “Paley points out that the watch exhibits an irreducibly complex organization that was obviously constructed to perform a specific function” (Gregory 2009, 604). Moreover, the reason for that comparison was to demonstrate that there is a designer for every creation that is made; an intelligent watchmaker had to of made the watch. “Paley called on a long list of examples from the sciences (especially biology) to make his argument,” was written by Velasquez (Velasquez 2015, 268). Paley had a strong belief that the reason for all creations was due to science and intelligent