Background of the Argument

Question 1

What did Plato (a pagan, 400BC) state?

Answer 1

The human body with all it’s parts must owe it’s origin to to a creator
- ‘the royal soul and mind in the nature of Zeus’

Question 2

How Did Cicero (Roman thinker, 106-43BC) also offer a form of the argument?

Answer 2

‘what could be more clear or obvious when we look up to the sky and contemplate the heavens, than there is some divinity or intelligence’

Question 3

In more modern times what had the argument been made into?

Answer 3

• A theistic argument by the links of Aquinas - seeking to prove the existence of God of classical theism