Aquinas Theological Argument

Design Arguments for the Existence of God

Aquinas theological argument is a traditional argument that tries to explain the existence of God, through observation of the design, order, and by showing us that faith can be founded in a reason. If we started to thoroughly observe all of the urbanity and incredible detail around us we will find out that the universe could not have occurred by chance.

Aquinas explained that most natural things lack knowledge, and he gave an example of the trees growing leaves during spring and losing them during autumn. Aquinas noticed that the trees lack intelligence, but there was consistence pattern and this perfect pattern cannot happen by chance but designed. What lacks of knowledge achieve their

goal by being directed with a superior intelligent.
It is an à posteriori argument.
The argument is also termed, "The Teleological Argument." That explains the purpose, goals and end in natural processes.
The design argument indicated that everything in the world move toward certain goals, just as the arrow does not move toward its goal except by the archer's directing it. Thus, there must be an intelligent designer who directs all things to their goals, and this is God.
I believe that the design argument is sound because first it is built on inductive reasoning, it give us something that we can observe. The argument also does not rely upon fixed definitions.
Aquinas used the watchmaker analogy in his argument to make it more comprehensible to us.
"If a watch proves the existence of a watchmaker but the universe does not prove the existence of a great Architect, then I consent to be called a fool." Voltaire
The design argument explains the purpose of the universe, and makes us understand that there is no such thing as blind nature that is randomly moving.
The argument made very difficult to deny the presence of order, and complexity in the universe that contains too much order for our existence to have been created out of chance.
The argument let us understand the complexity of our planet, and that there is calculatingly designer that not only created our universe, but also continues to sustain it.

For example, the terrestrial plant, the earth, with its impeccable size, if earth were smaller, an atmosphere would be impossible, and its rotation around the sun within certain limits that helps to maintain life on earth, if this limits changed for an iota it will create much heat or cold, and we will die, the moon with the ideal distance from the earth, for its gravitational pull that creates ocean tides and movement so water continue to flow, and our complex biological structure that earth is the only planet equipped with an atmosphere to sustain the life of plant, animal and human.

Aquinas’s argument is not essentially antagonizing the evolution and Big Bang because both of these theories could be part of the design of the universe.

The argument is Simple and easy to comprehend because it is not fixed on certain definitions that everyone must accept, but it begins with an experience that it can be testable It takes greater faith to believe that an unseen God exists, but in the same time intelligent being exists by whom all natural things are directed to their end; and this being we call

God.