Thomas Aquinas' argument from contingency #shorts #apologetics #christianity #atheism #god

Is there any evidence for God? Check out Thomas Aquinas' "third way" (argument for God from contingency) #shortsfeed #shortsyoutube #apologetics #atheism #thomasaquinas #christianity #god #philosophy

[AnotherViewer]

The current representation of the universe does seem to be just the sum of all the things that are in it: stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae, comets, asteroids, etc. So if they're all contingent, then the universe must be contingent too, right? David Hume challenged this premise hundreds of years ago and critics call it the Fallacy of Composition. Just because all the constituent parts of something share a characteristic, it doesn't mean the whole thing shares that characteristic. The famous example is a wall made of small bricks. Just because all the bricks are small, it doesn't mean the wall has to be small. So just because the universe is made out of contingent things, it doesn't mean the universe itself has to be contingent too.

[lhvinny]

Premise 1 is refuted by Premise 3.
I reject Premise 2, and so does Acquinas unless he thinks there was a stage when god did not exist.
The conclusion does not follow from Premise 3, as there is no demonstration that the non-contingent thing must be god.

[ShamontPowell-lq]

God is God, and didn't need man's opinion to put the entire universe into existence therefore let the Lord's will be done and maybe man can comprehend his purpose instead of doing everything but what he was created to do ...

[brabbelbeest]

I think this is a "special pleading" fallacy. You state that everything that exists depends on something, yet you want to argue the existence of God without God depending on something, which negates your first point....