" Although he actually doesn't think Anselm ontological argument works, Aquinas goes on in question 2, article 3, entitled: "Whether God Exists", to give five ways proving that God exists. ... But first, just as our textbook provided written works of philosophers who believed in the existence of God, there were also other philosophers who wrote on the contrary, God doesn't exist: One prime example was a reading entitled "The Problem of Evil" by David Hume. ... Hume believes that if such a God existed, though, then we would expect him to not allow suffering....

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David Hume adequately states why this is the circumstance when he said, "From watching a hair grow, can we infer how people grow?" ... This idea shows that since different people have different concepts of God, this argument works only to convince those who define the notion of God in the same way. ...

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