Like many people at a young age, I wanted sound philosophical arguments to believe in God. While reading Thomas Aquinas, it was his Fifth Way that persuaded me that there exists a Cosmic Designer, aka God:
1. Whatever lacks intelligence and exhibits regularity is the result of design. (Premise)
2. The laws of nature lack intelligence and exhibit regularity. (Premise)
3. Therefore, the laws of nature are the result of design. (From 1 and 2)
Premise (2) isn't controversial; otherwise they wouldn't be laws in the first place. Premise (1) we can infer through induction. The arrow lacks intelligence and exhibits regularity, or an end with the aim of the archer. Winning the lottery a thousand times in a row meets the same criteria. Hence, there exists a Cosmic Designer, which must transcend the universe and be timeless, changeless, immaterial, very powerful and intelligent. This everyone understands to be God.
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