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This paper gives an in-depth analysis of St. Thomas Aquinas's Five Ways, which were arguments to prove the existence of God. The paper further describes how three of these arguments were based on what has come to be known as the cosmological argument. This argument is seen as an effort to explain why there is anything at all, rather than nothing at all. The paper concludes by stating that none of these arguments are very convincing, especially in modern times.

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"Thomas Aquinas's Five Ways were arguments to prove the existence of God, and three of these arguments were based on what has come to be known as the cosmological argument. Conversely, one might say, as Leibniz did, that the cosmological argument was an effort to explain why there is anything at all, rather than nothing at all. While the cosmological argument has been important in philosophy, I would nevertheless argue that these arguments are not very convincing, especially in modern times. Aquinas's first argument points out that things are in motion, and then..."

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