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St Thomas Aquinas relied on what is known as the Cosmological Argument for the existence of God. He claimed that there were five valid ways to prove God exists, although thre of them are essentially restatements of the same things. Essentially his view was that some contingent beings exist; contingent beings require a noncontingent ground of being (a "necessary thing") in order to exist; therefore a noncontingent ground of being exists. This is not a great deal different to the Ontological Argument.

Aquinas' theological positions involved making unprovable assumptions from which to prove the unprovable.

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Answer: Thomas' arguments were not considered proofs of the existence of God in the scientific sense (because belief in God involves faith) but in the sense that believing in God is a rational step. (See related link) There are five 'ways': 1. The argument of Unmoved Mover 2. The argument of First Cause 3. The argument of Design and Purpose (Teleological) 4. The argument of Degree 5. The argument of Contingency

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