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o understand and to believe in than God. Everyone has a different view of what God is and even what he stands for, but many of those same people understand the concepts of matter. Matter is all around us, and even we are matter. We interact with matter everyday and in every situation, so the knowledge of matter is not trivial. God does not interact with us, he is not around us, and we do not associate with God in the same manner in which we associate with matter. Matter is an understandable concept while God is abstract. The properties of matter make it a suitable conclusion for Aquinas’ argument in place of God. The explanation of God is then not needed and therefore there is no place for God in the discussion of the origin of matter. Therefore, the best explanation is that God does not exist as a first efficient cause. Not only is matter an easier concept to understand and relate to than God, It is also a tremendous leap of faith to put anything as the first efficient cause. If you were to conclude that there had to be a first efficient cause, why would one assume that God was that cause. God, of all things, is the most abstract idea that exists. Why does Aquinas make this huge jump to God when matter would also fit in his explanation? Matter may even be a better concept then that of God because we are comfortable with what matter is. Why then, do people of so many different cultures and backgrounds, turn to the belief of a God as the first cause. Surely if so many people believe, they must have some clout as to what they are believing. These people are only believing in God because it is given as a conclusion to us as a being. Matter is just as suitable of a conclusion to us as a being and it answers the first efficient cause argument. Matter is not nearly as abstract of an idea and in fact, we are matter, so the notion that matter “is” is not nearly as far fetched as the idea that God “is”. The same peo...

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