Aquinas has a cosmological argument with 5 different ways of proving the existence of God, the prime mover, uncaused causer, the need of contingency and necessity, excellence and purpose. All 5 of the proofs are created in an attempt to support the existence of God which Thomas Aquinas very much so agreed with, as a catholic monk he felt in was his duty to reinforce the belief of God to many which is what he did in his book Summa Theologica which is what will be explained in depth. The first way of Aquinas’ theory is the unmoved mover, this means we can see that anything that moves must be set in motion by something else which was moving to begin with, and that thing intern was set in motion by something else. Aquinas argued that there must have been a first mover that which not itself was moved otherwise nothing would have ever begun moving to begin with. The fact that something has to move something and that something had to be moved by something can go on and on forever so in the eyes of Aquinas the only way to have an end to the limitless idea is that there is something that hasn’t been moved by something else but started the first movement itself. Which …show more content…
But if nothing ever created it then nothing would have never been created in the first place and the universe would fail to exist, therefore there must have been a creator itself not created which caused the existence for everything else. An example of this is the argument about the chicken and the egg, there is an egg and chicken come out of it, but where did the egg come from? Another chicken, that chicken came from an egg that was laid from a chicken that came out an egg and if there wasn’t an uncaused causer then my sentence would never ever end so the only logical answer is that there was something that made the first cause -