(November 21, 2016 at 4:15 pm)Primordial Bisque Wrote:(November 21, 2016 at 1:17 am)theologian Wrote: You may be right regarding liking God with nothing. However, if there's no God, then there cannot be something which is absurd. Because, upon analyzing the world, there must be a Unmoved Mover, First Cause, Uncaused Necessary Cause, Perfect Being, and Supremely Intelligent Being, which people call God.
Ah, St. Aquinas and his 5 ways of special pleading god into our imagination. How....13th century....or earlier. Didn't he base those arguments on Aristotelian philosophy?
Pretty much Aristotle because his philosophy has stood the test of time. Which of the 5 ways do you consider special pleading and why?