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Indeed, in this ethereal realm, some mysterious certainty drips intra-venously, intra-spiritually into our beings where we no longer speculate, where we no longer doubt nor fear, for we know with unshakable certainty that we do grasp the ungraspable, that we do utter the unutterable, with warts, fragments and all, fusing every formlessness into the form, fusing every shadow into light, fusing every lack of abundance into florabundance. Consequently, of this trilogy of arguments, the Teleological Argument is the most probable in that, at least, it acknowledges the existence of some mysterious, grandiose intelligence. Although we can’t prove if its scope is within or beyond concepts of omniscience, omnipotence and omnibenevolence, we can, at least, be certain that only such awe-inspiring intelligence could have struck and created the Universe either in an orderly manner with chaos (or poetry) as its finality or vice-versa.
In the Cosmological Argument, a necessary unmoved being exists that is the first cause or prime mover of the universe. Following Aristotle, Aquinas bases this proof on the observation that motion and change are constant in the universe and that things that change are changed by something else. Because the thing that changes doesn’t have the perfection towards what it tends to change, it is assumed that perfection is possessed, then, by the cause of the change. Moreover, if the agent also changes, the agent would have to change in virtue of
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