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The Cosmological Argument is a classical argument for the existence of God. It attempts to show that the world that we live in must have a first cause, which is identified as God. St.Thomas Aquinas designed his argument to convince us that there is one un
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The Cosmological Argument. The Cosmological argument is a classical argument for the existence of God. It attempts to show that the world that we live in must have a first cause, which is identified as God. St.Thomas Aquinas designed his argument to convince us that there is one uncaused necessary and perfect being - God. Aquinas presents his cosmological argument in the first three ways of his 'Five Ways' (Summa Theologicae). This essay will determine just how successful Aquinas proves the existence of God. The first of Aquinas' three ways was motion or change. According to Aquinas, in the world there are things that are in motion and whatever is moving must have been moved by something else. Whatever caused these things to move must itself be most significant and important. Then Aquinas states that this chain of motion cannot go back to infinity, their must have been a cause at the beginning....
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