Discussion #2: Existence of God

Dawkins claims that evolution and a belief in God are incompatible because he came up with the opposing argument that for Thomas Aquinas's statement that "nothing that we know looks designed unless it is designed" when Darwin came up with the clever reasoning of evolution by natural selection which by nature produces an impeccable "simulacrum of design, mounting prodigious heights of complexity and elegance." This reasoning completely counters Aquinas's proof of the existence of God, which makes it incompatible with Dawkins claims. Aquinas might respond by saying that natural selection could only happen if a certain force were to initiate the sequences of selection. He might say that God was the reason for it and only a higher being would have the ability to create such a force of nature. Aquinas might also say that in order for evolution to start then that initiator must be God because nothing acts, or is caused, or exist without a prior initial being of whom we might all call God.