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- From: sulkom@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Mark Sulkowski)
- Newsgroups: alt.philosophy.objectivism
- Subject: Re: God doesn't exist
- Message-ID: <C1Fus1.HDF@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 01:59:00 GMT
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- In article <ked-240193222625@m248-104.bgsu.edu>, ked@2001.bgsu.edu (Burly) writes...
- >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
- >-----------------------]
- > 6. Therefore, God exists.
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- Excuse me, but (2) contradicts (5). If "nothing can be the
- cause of itself" it MUST follow that God cannot be the cause of Itself.
- Where did God come from? Do we have to postulate ANOTHER God to create
- the first one? Ad infinitum?
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- Mark Sulkowski
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