... the creation of the universe concluding there was a need for a "motion which can move itself". Aristotle, Plato's pupil, carried forward the cosmological argument combining it with religion around 360 BC. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) was the most influential philosopher in the development of the cosmological argument. He was convinced there were features of the world that could prove the existence of God ... and not from physical experience . The idea of infinity exists but not infinity itself." The lack of evidence for actual infinities is a mathematical strength behind the cosmological a...

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... , is this proof of gods existence? Or is god not the answer? There are many writers who firmly believe in the statement above, the first is Thomas aqueous who was the founder of the cosmological argument. His theory states that there are 5 ways to prove gods existence. Firstly, that change and these are ... are degrees of goodness he says that this comes from god, and he says the closer you are to god, the closer you are to goodness. Aquinas's last posterior is that there is an apparent design and purpose in nature and he said that it will have needed something to start it off ... and he...

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