For my first basis for the existence of God I will use the a posteriori, ontological arguments. ... In Descartes "the Argument from Perfection" he reasons that if existence is one of the perfections and God has all the perfections, then God must exist. ... The existence of motion to the existence of a first mover as the cause of movement, was argued by Aristotle. ... The reason for this was that nothing caused God to move yet God was responsible for the motion of all other things. ...

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Though the reason Thales chose this element cannot be answered with sureness, Aristotle says that Thales "probably derived his opinion from observing that the nutriment of all things is moist, and that even actual heat is generated therefrom, and that animal life is sustained by water... and from the fact that the sees of all things possess a moist nature, and that water is a first principle of all things that are humid." ... Out of the four main elements used in the Presocratic era (earth, air, fire, and water), water is the only one that can interchange between all three states. ... With o...

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I say that we must trust our senses, in this way I agree with Aristotle. ... Our natural instincts insure the survival of our species but what we must do is use our minds to find truth, for the betterment of our race. We have the ability to reason, no other animal has. ...

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