DOES GOD EXIST?
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UNIT QUESTIONS
What does “God” mean?
How does science correlate with the existence of
God?
What proof do we have that shows God’s
existence?
THE EXISTENCE OF
GOD
By: Amanda Robinson
OVERVIEW
The meaning of “God”
The 5 Proofs of Thomas Aquinas
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The Argument of Motion
The Nature of Efficient Cause
Possibility and Necessity
The Gradation to be Found in Things
The Governance of the World
THE ARGUMENT OF
MOTION
Some things are in motion, yet anything moved is
moved by another.
There can’t be an infinite series of movers.
Therefore there must be a first mover (that itself
isn’t moved by another).
GOD MEANS…
 god/gäd/
 Noun: (in Christianity and other monotheistic religions) The
creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority;
the Supreme Being.
The Nature of Efficient
Cause
Some things are caused, anything caused was
caused by another.
There can’t be an infinite series of causes.
Therefore, there must be a first cause
Possibility and Necessity
 Every contingent being at some times fails to exist.
 If everything were contingent, then at some time there
would have been nothing, and so there would be nothing now.
 So not everything is contingent, meaning there is a
necessary being.
The Gradation to be Found in Things
Some things are greater than others.
Whatever is great to any degree gets its greatness
from that which is the greatest.
So, there is a greatest being, which is the source
of all greatness.
The Governance of the World
 Many things in the world that lack intelligence act for an
end.
 Whatever acts for an end must be directed by an intelligent
being.
 So the world must have an intelligent designer.
IN CONCLUSION
 Thomas Aquinas has 5 proofs to the existence of God.
 His proof of the argument of motion gives evidence to the
correlation between science and God.
 The word “God” means…