Existence of God

             As any other usual day a marine explorer is out in the sea with his team to explore new things and make some discoveries for a research. Unfortunately, the explorer leaves too far in search of his subject and then mistakenly his team leaves him behind. Suddenly, the man realizes that his ship has left him behind in the wide big ocean with just blue water and no land as far as the eye can see. There seems to be no hope of any ship passing by as they came to explore in an isolated place. Hours have passed with no ship and the explorer's energy rapidly declining to float in the water with each passing hour. In a situation like this, the only hope and the only thing possible is "prayer" that is asking for help from God. After few more hours and constant praying there seems to be a ship coming his way. The people in the ship save his life. Is it a miracle by God who heard his prayers and saved him or just a sheer coincidence that a ship was passing by and saved him? Does God really exist or is it just the imaginary belief of a man when there is no way out of a problem?
             Philosophers have spent decades trying to solve this mystery. In fact, those who believe in the existence of God have come up with many arguments to prove it and those who do not believe in God have come up with equal number of arguments to prove otherwise. The main three arguments that try to prove the existence of God are Cosmological, Teleological, and Ontological Arguments. The three arguments do explain the existence of God to certain extent but there are many criticisms to each argument. However, the three arguments combined together give little explanation to the concept of God. Unfortunately, it is very challenging to bring hard evidence to prove a supernatural phenomenon such as the existence of God.
             I plan to talk in detail about Cosmological Argument and support the five ways described by Thomas Aquinas to prove that God does exist. In addition, I will addres...

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