The question of God and the existence of has lasted for thousands of years and while many philosophers have tried to prove or disprove Gods existence, it is still a common controversial topic today. There are three arguments that can be used in relation to the existence of God, the cosmological, the ontological, and the teleological. All three arguments have something in common, they all believe that there must be something greater in order for human existence to occur. They all have different arguments, however, they all come to the same conclusion; that God must exist. It is possible to prove the existence of God solely by rational thinking because of the three common philosophical arguments; the cosmological argument, the ontological argument, and the teleological argument.
The first argument is the cosmological argument, this is the argument that the universe could not possibly exist on its own and, therefore, there must have been an origin that caused it; a higher power (Vlach). This means that something would have had to have made the universe exist and that something, according to the cosmological argument, is God. It is rational to believe that everything that has a beginning has a cause; the beginning of …show more content…
St. Thomas Aquinas accepted this argument and used it as one of his “five ways” to verifying the presence of God (Gracyk, 2004). The universe has a very intricate design that can only be the work of a great designer, in this case, God. It is rational to believe God exists when using the teleological argument because it is too complex to have been left up to random chance. The planets move so accurately in their orbits and the human body alone has many different systems in the way it works that it is too complex to have just “happened” and, therefore, must have been created by a higher power, by
The first argument is the cosmological argument, this is the argument that the universe could not possibly exist on its own and, therefore, there must have been an origin that caused it; a higher power (Vlach). This means that something would have had to have made the universe exist and that something, according to the cosmological argument, is God. It is rational to believe that everything that has a beginning has a cause; the beginning of …show more content…
St. Thomas Aquinas accepted this argument and used it as one of his “five ways” to verifying the presence of God (Gracyk, 2004). The universe has a very intricate design that can only be the work of a great designer, in this case, God. It is rational to believe God exists when using the teleological argument because it is too complex to have been left up to random chance. The planets move so accurately in their orbits and the human body alone has many different systems in the way it works that it is too complex to have just “happened” and, therefore, must have been created by a higher power, by