79: Edward Feser Explodes Richard Dawkins' "refutation" of Aquinas' 5 ways
Pints With Aquinas
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The Unmoved Mover Argument
Dawkins doesn't even really understand the thrust of how the argument's supposed to work, as we'll see when we get to what he says later in the text. When atheists criticize the argument, they often say it rests on this claim that every effect has a cause. But Aquinas deliberately avoids making such a claim whenever he argues for God's existence. So if you don't get into that, you're just not getting into the argument.
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