Aquinas examined the question of God's existence in great detail in his philosophical works. Aquinas had the typical philosopher mentality by asserting that it cannot be just merely accepted that God exists, since this conflict is not evident. It is a declaration that must be proven. In other words, faith alone is not sufficient enough

evidence to conclude that God exists. Aquinas pointed out that what may be conceived in the intellect does not necessarily exists in reality. To make his own case regarding this issue, Aquinas established his five criteria on the existence of God through Summa Theologica, the first three of which became known form the basis of the cosmological argument confirming God's existence. The five ways Aquinas used to confirm the existence of God all stemmed from a first cause argument (Titus and Smith, 242). In other words, life perpetuates itself as one cause prompts the occurrence of an event which becomes the cause for a subsequent event and so on through infinity. However, at some point, there had to be a first cause, which set these wheels into motion, which is the being commonly referred to as God (Titus and Smith, 242).

These people could not explain such natural phenomenons as lightning or earthquakes so they attributed them to some higher power. Today there are empirical, scientific explanations for these occurrences. The possibility exists that someday science will somehow be able to prove or disprove the theory that God exists. With both points of view presented, which, if either is correct? Aquinas' argument, an admirable model of deductive reasoning, is lacking in scientific validity. Hume argued, perhaps correctly, that this historical description of a natural and moral order only grew from man's desire to live an ordered existence, not from God's existence. People will forever be arguing around their dinner tables about the existence of God. Many take comfort in the belief that there is one Creator who still exists in the universe, a perfect being who watches out for His 'imperfect' children. However, the argument that God exists because he was the 'First Cause' of everything is too simplistic for the sophisticated intellect to accept. It may be spiritually comforting to believe in the existence of a higher power, but there is no irrefutable evidence to suggest that God was 'the cause' of everything, hence

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