Aquinas Theological Argument

Design Arguments for the Existence of God Aquinas theological argument is a traditional argument that tries to explain the existence of God, through observation of the design, order, and by showing us that faith can be founded in a reason. If we started to thoroughly observe all of the urbanity and incredible detail around us we will find out that the universe could not have occurred by chance.

Aquinas explained that most natural things lack knowledge, and he gave an example of the trees growing leaves during spring and losing them during autumn. Aquinas noticed that the trees lack intelligence, but there was consistence pattern and this perfect pattern cannot happen by chance but designed. What lacks of knowledge achieve their

For example, the terrestrial plant, the earth, with its impeccable size, if earth were smaller, an atmosphere would be impossible, and its rotation around the sun within certain limits that helps to maintain life on earth, if this limits changed for an iota it will create much heat or cold, and we will die, the moon with the ideal distance from the earth, for its gravitational pull that creates ocean tides and movement so water continue to flow, and our complex biological structure that earth is the only planet equipped with an atmosphere to sustain the life of plant, animal and human. Aquinas’s argument is not essentially antagonizing the evolution and Big Bang because both of these theories could be part of the design of the universe. The argument is Simple and easy to comprehend because it is not fixed on certain definitions that everyone must accept, but it begins with an experience that it can be testable It takes greater faith to believe that an unseen God exists, but in the same time intelligent being exists by whom all natural things are directed to their end; and this being we call