St. Thomas Aquinas:

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St. Thomas Aquinas  Five Proofs foSt. Thomas
Aquinas  Five Proofs for God
The first way The way of MOTION
The second way The way of CAUSATION
The third way The way of CONTINGENCY
The fourth way The way of GOODNESS
The fifth way The way of DESIGN (or teleology)
1225-1274
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William Paley (1743-1805), the Archdeacon of
Carlisle
The watchmaker analogy, or watchmaker argument,
is a teleological argument for the existence of
God. By way of an analogy, the argument states
that design implies a designer. In the 17th and
18th centuries, the analogy was used (by
Descartes and Boyle, for instance) as a device
for explaining the structure of the universe and
God's relationship to it. Later, the analogy
played a prominent role in natural theology and
the "argument from design," where it was used to
support arguments for the existence of God and
for the intelligent design of the universe.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 
August 25, 1900)
God is Dead, killed by Science... Only the super
human who can Transcend socially imposed
belief ...is God....
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Clinton Richard Dawkins, (born 26 March 1941)
Only blind evolution creates the
universe Author of The Selfish Gene and The
Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the
watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence
of a supernatural creator based upon the observed
complexity of living organisms, and instead
described evolutionary processes as being
analogous to a blind watchmaker.
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Tetsuro Watsuji (?? ?? Watsuji Tetsuro)
18891960)
Space and nothingness is that final place or
context in which all distinctions disappear, or
empty, and yet from which they emerge.
The delusion of independent individuality can be
overcome by recognizing our radical relational
interconnectedness.
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Professor John Harwood Hick (born Yorkshire,
England, 1922
The historical Jesus of Nazareth did not teach or
apparently believe that he was God, or God the
Son, Second Person of a Holy Trinity,