[D-fendr]

My apologies I was thinking creation rather than existence. Aquinas doesn’t argue that existence=caused. He argues that in the sense world all we observe are intermediate and end causes… the first cause must exist because these exist.

[kosta50]

My apologies I was thinking creation rather than existence. Aquinas doesn’t argue that existence=caused. He argues that in the sense world all we observe are intermediate and end causes… the first cause must exist because these exist

Creation = existence. before I create my side table, it does not exist. Before creation the world did not exist. That which is created is caused into existance. This does not explain the "existence" of the uncaused.