Sunday, March 4, 2012

Claims about God

Evolution and a belief in God are not incompatible as Dawkins claims. Dawkins targets and nit-picks at Aquinas argument and discusses how Aquinas claims will not work for his argument. Dawkins never really gives his answers the questions that Aquinas answered, such as when Aquinas addressed the question of movement, cause/effect, or degrees of perfection. Here, Aquinas gives his reason to all of the questions and answers them by explaining God was the reason for all of these. Dawkins only points out that his claims are not a sufficient proof that God exist. It would have made his argument stronger if he had not only said that Aquinas was wrong, but proved him wrong with what he believed was the real reason these things occurred. If Aquinas was alive today, I believe he would be asking for the same thing I am, what he believes is the correct answer to why those things are. Anyone can have an opinion on a view point - but it does not mean much if you cannot back it up.

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