Philosophers and theologians have always searched a way to prove the existence or non-existence of God. Many of these philosophers have made valid points for their views on the subject. Philosophers such as Saint Thomas Aquinas, Decartes, and John Locke argued for the existence of God while others, such as Rowe and Hume, searched for ways to disprove the arguments that these philosophers stated.

Saint Thomas Aquinas had five ways in which he proved the existence of God. The first of which dealt with proving the existence of God through the idea of motion. By studying the works of Aristotle he concluded that an object in motion must be put into motion by another object or force. Therefore he stated that there must be an "unmoved mover" (God) who initially put things into motion:

"When it is said that something moves itself, the same being is considered as both moving and moved. When, however, it is said that something is moved by another, one thing is considered as a mover and another thing as being moved. Now it is clear that when something moves another, the fact that it is moving another does not mean that it is the first mover. Whence t

"If the God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it; and if he does exist it would be a folly to attempt it(Intro to Philosophy: Kierkegaard, pp.342)". I would like to open up this next section of this paper with that quote in order to show that I am not necessarily trying to prove that there is no God but just to show that the proofs dealing with the existence of God are nonsense. How can the above philosophers actually believe that they could prove the existence of God through reason when this topic is far beyond the reasoning of the human mind?

4. Then a being greater than God is possible.

1. A Perfect island is by definition the greatest possible island.

Decartes said, "we exist and we have the idea of a most perfect being; and, as we are ourselves imperfect, that the idea is not produced by us-it must therefore have a cause. (Decartes & Spinoza, pp.74)" By saying this Decartes brings about the idea of innate ideas to prove the existence of God. He is saying that because we have an idea of a perfect being it must have been put in our minds for a purpose and therefore God exists.

o say that something moves another does not exclude the fact that it itself may be moved by another and have from this other the fact that it is a mover. So, in like manner, when something moves itself, this does not exclude the fact that it may be moved by another and have from this other the power to move itself.(Being and God, pp.235)"

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