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Aquina's arguments concerning God Aquinas presents two arguments against the existence of god. The first argument states that; "Its seems that God does not exist; because if one or two contraries be infinite, the other would be altogether destroyed. But the name God means He is infinite goodness. If, therefore, God existed, there would be no evil discoverable; but there is evil in the world. Therefore God does not exist." The second argument stated by Aquinas is that is "It superfluous to suppose that what can accounted for by a few principles has been produced by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be reduced to one principle, which is nature and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle, which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence." Aquinas then presents several arguments against the existence of god that...

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