Thomas Aquinas Arguments Against Contingency Analysis

I intend to justify and prove Thomas Aquinas’ Argument From Contingency, and through that the existence of God. This argument can be backed up by a later argument by Aquinas, The Teleological Argument as well as the watchmaker theory. They prove this through saying that if there is an intelligent designer. This intelligent designer must also be a necessary being therefore arguing for the Argument from Contingency. There are also arguments placed against the Argument from Contingency such as the Theory of Evolution, and the Big bang theory. These theories both say that we came from chance either by an explosion or by natural processes. Given the arguments against it the Argument from Contingency is still valid and proves the existence of God. …show more content…
Some of the most common beliefs that stand against the Argument from Contingency are The Big Bang Theory, and the Theory of Evolution. The Big Bang Theory states that all the matter in the universe was at one point, concentrated into one single incredibly small space in the universe around 13.7 billion years ago, and expanded rapidly in an increasing hot explosion, and is still expanding today (http://tinyurl.com/ktks4tc). This counter argument does not call for the existence of God or any necessary being like the fine-tuning arguments but instead says that all of this matter previously existed and just by chance exploded into the universe. Another common counter argument is the Theory of Evolution. This theory states that through natural processes and the adaptation and passing on of genes one species can form from a completely different species. For instance, in Charles Darwin’s book, On the Origin Species, the process according to evolution on how a land animal could become a whale and so forth on through multiple other species is explained (Than, http://tinyurl.com/d5gsnbl). This theory as well does not require a necessary being and therefore in both of these stances everything is contingent and yet we all still live, even if by chance. Even though the Argument from …show more content…
For instance, both the Theory of Evolution and the Big Bang Theory state that the world just started itself and that life just somehow came to be but as archaeologists have dug and discovered fossils it has been discovered that there are links missing in the evolutionary chain of how one species came to be another or of how certain organs developed in species. As for the Big Bang Theory, in an earlier argument of Aquinas the Argument From Motion it says that nothing can move it self, and the first mover theory by Aristotle says the same thing. Also for a real-world example of this if you are learning another language you cannot teach it to yourself. You may read a book on that language but in that case the book is teaching you (Barron, http://tinyurl.com/z6k7nwh). To further disprove this the Fine-tuning Argument states that the Big Bang could have happened but not like the original theory said it was, by chance, and instead that a necessary being, God, set it into motion (Green, http://tinyurl.com/gnmcvqy). For every objection that Aquinas wrote for his theories he also disproved them. The disproof for his objection mentioned earlier goes as follows: it is true that two substances cannot be under the same species but, those things that are added to that substance can be held under different species. For instance, the color and scent of fruit can classify them into

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