St. Thomas Aquinas Five Ways

St. Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican Priest, theologian, and philosopher. Aquinas had developed five ways of arguments based on the existence of God.

The First Way of Aquinas' arguments is The Argument from Motion. In this argument Aquinas says that an object is put in motion by some other force or object. He believes that there must have been something that had started out unmoved (G-d) that had caused everything else to be put in motion.

The Second Way of Aquinas' arguments is the Causation of Existence. This way is about the issue of existence, Aquinas thought that an object could not create itself. He thought that an object couldn't exist unless something else were to create it and that there should have been something at first that couldn't have been created by anything at all (G-d).

The Third Way of Aquinas' arguments is the Contingent and Necessary Objects. In this argument he explains that a contingent being is an object that could not exist without the necessary being causing the existence.

The Fourth Way of Aquinas' arguments is The Argument from Degrees and Perfection. This argument says that if there are two of the same things then one must have a greater goodness, beauty, or knowledge. He believed that there had to be a standard to perfection and these perfections were measured in God.

The Fifth and Final way of Aquinas' arguments is The Argument from Intelligent Design. This argument explains common sense tells everyone that the universe works in such a specific way that an individual can result to the thought that the universe  was created and designed by an intelligent higher being (G-d).