s, and then goes back and buys that field." The topic that concerns me in religious philosophy is, can the existence of God be revealed or can He be proved by other people’s arguments. The arguments for the existence of God divide into two main groups, a priori and posteriori arguments. A priori argument depends on no premises and a posteriori argument is based on premises that can know by experiences of life and the universe. Philosophers for centuries have questioned and have tried to prove the existence of a God. The two philosophers that come to my mind are Saint Thomas Aquinas and William Paley. Both of these philosophers are alike in the fact that they both argued a posteriori arguments. Out of both of their arguments, Thomas Aquinas’s argument was categorized as cosmological. This type of argument begins with a posteriori assumptions that a great, spirtitual being exists and something other than the plain existence of the being is supposed to explain it. The second philosopher, William Paley’s argument was theological. A theological argument for the existence of God begins with a premise that the world demonstrates intelligent purpose and goes forward to the conclusion that there must be or there may be a supreme being with a divine intelligence. Even though, Thomas Aquinas and William Paley both agree that God exists, and while their arguments to prove God's existence share some differences, similarities surface as well. (Pojman,Louis P.(1999) p.41)Thomas Aquinas was a philosopher in an era of that Christianity was the only religion and to go against Christianity or any of its beliefs was thought to be sacrilegious. The two points, which crossed Thomas Aquinas’, mind, which through his argument he will prove wrong. One was if God was so good why does he let evil exist among those, which he created. The second is everything can be explained through the principal of nature or human reason. I...
