Does God exist?

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Does God exist?

Both St Thomas Aquinas' cosmological argument and William Paley's teleological argument both claim to prove that God exists. However both arguments are ambiguous meaning that they can be interpreted in more than one way and so you can study both arguments and come away with two sensible conclusions claiming that God does or doesn't exist. In the piece I am going to go through each argument and give reasons as to how each argument supports a belief in God or does not support a belief in God.

The main thrust of the cosmological argument is that when asking about how the universe was created, it would simply be illogical to claim that something sprung from nothing and so something must have created it. However today we have evidence that the universe was caused by a big bang, but St Thomas Aquinas was not alive at the time of this discovery however he would have said that it cannot be an answer because then you would have to ask the question, what created the big bang? The cosmological argument states that the realistic explanation for the creation of the universe is that there was