Aquinas 3 Ways

Socrates

Plato

Aristotle

Cicero

Movement in the world

Contingency

Beauty

Causation

Logic

Observation

Empirical evidence

Intuition

Finite Regression

Finite Progression

Infinite Regression

Infinite Progression

A Moved Mover - something that moves other things and is moved by other things

A Moved Unmover - Something which is moved but does not move other things

An Unmoved Mover - something which can move other things but can move itself

An Uncaused Causer - something which is a cause of other things but does not have a cuase itself

An Uncaused Uncauser - something which has no cause and can't cause anything else

A Caused Causer - something which is caused and is the cuase of other things.

Things can come into existence from nothing, therefore the universe sprang into existence and doesn't need a cause.

Nothing can come into existence from nothing, therefore something must have been the cause of the universe. This thing is necessary otherwise the universe would not exist.

Zeus

The Christian God

Brahman

Jupiter