St. Thomas Aquinas' and his...Ways...

I believe Aquinas' argument of the Fourth Way in which he states there must be a standard perfection in the world to measure certain qualities as the best of his arguments and I agree on it. I agree with this because in order for us even to compare objects, we must have some type of perfection of what that quality is before we even decide. Some may argue that this is prettier than this other one because we are comparing two things and without one or the other there would be nothing. Still, in order for us to compare these things we have a set perfection of what beauty is already even though beauty comes differently for all people and perspectives, there is some type of ideal beauty in order for us to categorize something as beautiful. Beauty has its common aspects and ideal perfection in order for us to consider what is pretty or not. The same goes for being good or bad. Someone is considered good because there is an ideal perfection of what good deeds are and what bad deeds are. Who is to say what is good or bad except for these perfections that are already placed in our minds. We might not know it's there but it is. God could have possibly put these imperfections and perfections on earth and so there are perfections that we look towards. Why is it that people strive to get good grades instead of bad grades. Why is it that people want to be rich? There's an ideal perfection of what happiness is but there are different perspectives as well. There is an ideal happiness for everyone though and once someone gets it, they know, because they have something to compare it to and something to measure it by.

But, there are some things that I do not agree on with Aquinas and that's his second argument that God is the cause for existence for all things. Not necessarily is this true. How would we know anyway because we can't trace that far back into time when he did create it. We can say someone else created it but who would know except for God if he really did create the world. I agree that there is a cause and effect for everything but if there is a cause and effect for everything then who created God? There needs to be an endless chain of cause and effects because the question still stands: Who created God if God "created" the world and humans? Sometimes we name the things that occur in the universe as a work of God only because we cannot explain it through any other means. We give things a certain magical twist or unexplainable allusion that some higher being is acting on earth but only because there's not logical reason to go against it. Motion, force, and mass can be personified to be seen as God, but that's only a name. Who is God exactly? These natural things that occur on earth can just be blamed on science or just happens because that's how the world is. There does not have to be something that creates something else. Things in nature can happen on its own and there is not external force creating things. We call the force of the universe God, but it could not be God. It doesn't have to be God but that's the name we give it.