In today’s day and age one highly controversial topic of debate is religion. Has God become obsolete with all the scientific progress the human race has made in the past few decades?
Lewis Vaughn explains in his book Philosophy: Here and Now ( pg. 64-66) St. Thomas Aquinas’s evidence for God. Aquinas’ arguments for the existence of God are known as the first-cause argument and the argument from motion. Aquinas explains that in the universe everything is moving and caused by something, for example a ball is pushed by a child. Why did this happen? The child was there to push the ball. Why was the child there to push the ball? The child was given birth to by his mother. You can then trace each cause and effect indefinitely before human life …show more content…
Contrary to Aquinas, Humes believes that it is possible for there to be an infinite time line of cause and effects. Hume states that in this infinitely long timeline there is no first cause because the universe may be eternal, and has always been. ( Vaughn 66-67)
In an interview at San Marco Catholic Church, Father Yung explained his ideas of the creation of the universe. Father Yung stated “ nothing can arise from nothing” he believes that God was the cause of the big bang. When asked about studies that showed particles can suddenly pop into and out of the universe randomly at the subatomic level, Father Yung said that he believed that God was behind the curtain adding these particles into our universe.
Philosophers like William Paley look around at our world and see something designed by something greater than ourselves. Paley supports his idea with the following scenario. You are walking on the beach, you step on something hard and stop to investigate. Upon sifting through the sand you find a pocket watch. You might ask yourself “how did this watch get here?” The watch was obviously no product of nature. The watch has several gears and part that work together to create a machine that tells the time. Now one reasonable explanation would be someone had bought this watch from the creator ( or distributor), and lost it at the beach. Now look at the human eye, with its beauty, ability, and efficiency. Paley would have you to …show more content…
Father Yung’s example was skin cancer. He claims that sixty years ago there was no such thing as skin cancer. He says that because of human pollution that leads to destruction of the Ozone layer has lead to suffering from skin cancer. Father Yung also said that because people want to be “beautiful” and tan so they knowingly expose themselves to dangerous amounts of sunlight. Father Yung’s point is that the human population is indirectly responsible for one another’s suffering because we have the free will to make irresponsible and bad choices. In accordance to Father Yung’s thinking the young boy’s suffering it was the father’s own choice that caused his
Lewis Vaughn explains in his book Philosophy: Here and Now ( pg. 64-66) St. Thomas Aquinas’s evidence for God. Aquinas’ arguments for the existence of God are known as the first-cause argument and the argument from motion. Aquinas explains that in the universe everything is moving and caused by something, for example a ball is pushed by a child. Why did this happen? The child was there to push the ball. Why was the child there to push the ball? The child was given birth to by his mother. You can then trace each cause and effect indefinitely before human life …show more content…
Contrary to Aquinas, Humes believes that it is possible for there to be an infinite time line of cause and effects. Hume states that in this infinitely long timeline there is no first cause because the universe may be eternal, and has always been. ( Vaughn 66-67)
In an interview at San Marco Catholic Church, Father Yung explained his ideas of the creation of the universe. Father Yung stated “ nothing can arise from nothing” he believes that God was the cause of the big bang. When asked about studies that showed particles can suddenly pop into and out of the universe randomly at the subatomic level, Father Yung said that he believed that God was behind the curtain adding these particles into our universe.
Philosophers like William Paley look around at our world and see something designed by something greater than ourselves. Paley supports his idea with the following scenario. You are walking on the beach, you step on something hard and stop to investigate. Upon sifting through the sand you find a pocket watch. You might ask yourself “how did this watch get here?” The watch was obviously no product of nature. The watch has several gears and part that work together to create a machine that tells the time. Now one reasonable explanation would be someone had bought this watch from the creator ( or distributor), and lost it at the beach. Now look at the human eye, with its beauty, ability, and efficiency. Paley would have you to …show more content…
Father Yung’s example was skin cancer. He claims that sixty years ago there was no such thing as skin cancer. He says that because of human pollution that leads to destruction of the Ozone layer has lead to suffering from skin cancer. Father Yung also said that because people want to be “beautiful” and tan so they knowingly expose themselves to dangerous amounts of sunlight. Father Yung’s point is that the human population is indirectly responsible for one another’s suffering because we have the free will to make irresponsible and bad choices. In accordance to Father Yung’s thinking the young boy’s suffering it was the father’s own choice that caused his