Fifth of Aquinas’ Five Ways to prove God’s existence (qua regularity):
1. Everything follows natural laws, even things that are not conscious
2. If things follow a natural law, they tend to have some goal/purpose
3. But if a think cannot think for itself, it does not have any goal/purpose unless it is directed by something that thinks
4. Everything in the natural world that does not think for itself heads towards its goal or purpose because it is directed by something which does think. Aquinas says this is God.
- Even though humans think for themselves and cause things to be aimed at some goal or result, the reason why humans exist has to be explained because humans are not immortal and die
- Aquinas’ teleological argument is influenced by Aristotle’s theory of Four Causes.
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