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'God is not real?'
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'God is not real?' St Thomas Aquinas an Italian philosopher, and William Paley an English Christian philosopher and theologian have both raised arguments for the existence of God. According to Aquinas, he argues that all living things are caused by something else. Aquinas refers this to be the efficient cause. He concluded that something can not cause itself and hence all cause can be tracked down to a single principal cause that does not rely on efficient causes for its effects. This cause is God, one who is unchanging, non-dependent and uncaused being. Paley had a design argument. He quoted: "Suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly answer that for anything I knew, the watch might always have been there. The watch must have had a maker, who comprehended its construction and...
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