What is your answer?

    If we can explain everything by other principles, then we needn't suppose that God exists.
    But we can explain everything by other principles.
    Therefore we needn't suppose that God exists.
How did Aquinas respond to this objection to belief in God?
    { 1 } - He questioned the first premise.
    { 2 } - He questioned the second premise.
    { 3 } - He thought it was a good argument -- and so he become an atheist.

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1 is wrong. Please try again.

    If we can explain everything by other principles, then we needn't suppose that God exists.
    But we can explain everything by other principles.
    Therefore we needn't suppose that God exists.
How did Aquinas respond to this objection to belief in God?

No, he seemed to have accepted this premise (although others have questioned it).

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2 is correct!

    If we can explain everything by other principles, then we needn't suppose that God exists.
    But we can explain everything by other principles.
    Therefore we needn't suppose that God exists.
How did Aquinas respond to this objection to belief in God?
    { 1 } - He questioned the first premise.
    { 2 } - He questioned the second premise.
    { 3 } - He thought it was a good argument -- and so he become an atheist.

He claimed that our explanations of things -- if we push them back far enough -- must mention God. He referred the reader back to the main body of his article, in which he tried to show that God is the first mover, the first cause, and the intelligent designer of the world.

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3 is wrong. Please try again.

    If we can explain everything by other principles, then we needn't suppose that God exists.
    But we can explain everything by other principles.
    Therefore we needn't suppose that God exists.
How did Aquinas respond to this objection to belief in God?
    { 1 } - He questioned the first premise.
    { 2 } - He questioned the second premise.
    { 3 } - He thought it was a good argument -- and so he become an atheist.

So you thought St. Thomas Aquinas was an atheist? You must be joking!

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