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Subject: God doesn't exist
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Thomas Aquinas, a most influential Roman Catholic theologian and
philosopher come up with the First Cause Argument also known as the
Cosmological Argument.  In it he stated several arguments that he believed
makes it clear that God does exist.  Let's study his argument for a minute:
    1.  Everything thtat exists had a cause of its coming into existence
    2.  Nothing can be the cause of itself
    3.  There cannot be an infinate series of causal chains
    4.  Therefore, there most be a first cause
    5.  The First Cause must be God
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    6.  Therefore, God exists.

If we brake Aquinas's argument into Layman's terms, here would be an
example:
    You exist because your parents gave birth to you.  Your parents exist
because their parents gave birth to them.  You grandparents exist because
their parents gave birth to them, ect, ect.  If there was no First Cause,
we would have an infinitive chain extending back into time with no
beginning.  Aquinas doesn't think that's plausible.  He believes that there
had to be a beginning, and he names that beginning as God.  My question is,
why does it have to be God that began it all?
    Earth is possitioned just right for it to substain life.  Not too close,
not too far away from the sun.  The atmoshphere is a collection of gases.
What if the gases around the earth's ring combusted, forming chemical
reactions.  Scientists know how water is formed:  Hydrogen and Oxygen.
Perhaps these elements were already in the atmospher.  Perhaps the
temperature was just right to form the chemical reaction that causes water.
 Water is the back bone of life.
    Now we need a First Cause.  If it is so easy to believe that there is a
God, isn't even easier to believe that in the pools of water that have
fallen from the atmospher to have been a single cell.  A single cell that
multipled and broke off, such as so that there are now two cells.  Now
these two cells multiple and branch off, so there are four, ect. ect.
Thousands of years pass, with cells multipling and branching off.  Then
Darwism's theory of Nature Selection comes into play.
    Perhaps you have doubts that a single cell could cause all the beauty that
you see around you.  Remember that it only takes nine months to form the
most complex being of them all:  the human being.  I personally believe
that the single cell argument, as I call it, is easy to believe then
believing that God put us here on earth.
    God is defined as an all knowing, all powerful, all good higher being.  If
there is a God, what happened to the all good part.  Tell me what is good
about murder, rape, child molesting, even robbery.  I believe that there
are some evils that need to exist.  If there was no sadness, then there
would be no joy.  If there was no hate, there could be no love.  But what
is the point to the evil that man had been doing such as murder.  Do we
benefit from that death?  How does the rape of some women on the other side
of the country benefit me other than scaring the shit out of me and forcing
me to carry mace iwth me at all times in the event that if I am attacked, I
will have the chance to get away.  I should not have to fear for my
sanctuary in the first place.
    I don't want to knock God's existence.  I would like to be a believer.
Someone out there convience me that he's out there and that he does exist.