First cause arguement

• Who made the First Cause argument?

  Thomas Aquinas
• Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

  Italian Catholic Priest

  hugely influential philosopher and theologian

  He believed that the natural world provided a lot evidence for God's existence
• What is the First cause arguements?

  this 'proof' for the existence of God claims that because the universe exists, someone or something must have 'caused' it to exist.
• What does Aquinas think about an infinite regress?

  Aquinas rejects this as illogical
• This uncaused is unique and more powerful than everything else, so what is it? Aquinas believed that the Uncaused must be God