Title 1: Is there good evidence for or against the existence of God?

Throughout the ages, the topic of religion has always been discussed and argued over. Some people will always argue that God does exist, whilst others will argue that he doesn’t.

Firstly I would like to start my argument with the famous 13th century philosopher, Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas’ argument is known as the cosmological argument. This is the idea of: the unmoved mover, the uncaused causer and idea of contingency, these three arguments are all a posteriori (based on the evidence in the universe around us). The unmoved mover is the concept that, in theory (is logically acceptable even for an atheist), that nothing can be in motion without something first putting it into motion. This argument is very similar to Aristotle’s, which is the idea that everything that changes shape, temperature or simply into something else must be changed by something. Aquinas argued that one thing leading to another infinitely, must be wrong. Something must have been there to cause the first movement. This is why Aquinas rejects the idea of infinite regress, as he believes, that something must have set the whole chain of reactions off, for example something has to push the first domino for the chain reaction to start, and this being for Christians is the unmoved mover or in other terms God.

However, many atheists reject this theory as they believe that the idea of infinite regress is very plausible. For example Aquinas argued that for something to make something else hot, the thing that is doing the causing must be hot in the first place. On the other hand Anthony Kenny states that the thing that does the causing does not necessarily have to be hot, the heat that is caused could come from friction or an electric current that can create heat. Both of these points are very valid, but one could argue that