Saturday, March 3, 2012

Evolution and Belief in God

Both of the articles strongly contradict each other. Aquinas says that the existence of God can easily be supported by reasoning. On the other hand, Dawkins opposes his proofs and argues that God's existence is bogus, but rather people are forced to believe about the nature of God and not God in himself. When it comes to reasoning these two articles out, I think evolution and belief can work hand in hand in deriving a point. I am not going to fight the idea that believing that something so great and powerful must have existed before any of the things we have now started. But with a strong background in Catholicism, faith is what connects the two together. Although evolution states that a single thing must have started the rest, and belief argues that God has just simply been present since the very beginning, with faith one can say that believing in His existence, He must have in one way or another started, and was the ultimate reason as to why there is such existence in everything else. As for Aquinas' response to Dawkins, I think he would disagree and reason that a stronger faith will help a person justify his or her reasoning and beliefs of what is going on in this world.

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  1. I am also a Catholic and believe in the existence of God. I also agree that the articles strong contradict each other. On one side you have Aquinas that believes existence of God can be supported by reasoning such as that many people continue reading the bible daily, while in the other side you have Dawkins saying that there is no proof for God existing even though his proofs and ideas for evolution are not strong to begin with. I believe that this issue will always be a controversial issue until logical proof for at least one of these ideas are found.

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