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PHIL 102 Introduction to Philosophy was the first philosophy class I have ever taken. Before this class I had no idea what the study of philosophy truly was, even after this class I am still a little unclear. This class brought on a whole new way of thinking that I was not use to. This class challenged me to grasp even the simplest of concepts that we learned. So right now to say I am philosophically inclined would be false, but I think over time and more classes I could have a better understanding of the topic. It is hard for me to say whether I am clear or not in my philosophical positions because I am still struggling to understand even the basic ones, so how can you have a clear idea of something when you don’t understand it? In this†¦show more content†¦Thomas Aquinas. The teleological is an argument from design, that the universe was designed by an intelligent creator and one of St. Thomas Aquinas’s five proofs for the existence of God. The two main premi ses for this argument is that the universe is complex and within it contains many things that exhibit signs of purpose and design, and that the only thing that could have caused these complexities that we see in the universe comes from an intelligent mind which would lead to an intelligent creator. One of the reasons I believe this argument to be true is the state of Alaska, just looking out of my window it is hard to believe that something other than an intelligent creator designed everything out there. This argument often compares the human eye to that of a watch. A watchmaker is an intelligent designer who puts thought and effort into every single piece of the watch, as an intelligent designer put thought and effort into the human eye. One of the arguments we covered that challenged by belief the most during the philosophy of religion was the problem of evil. The problem of evil is an argument for the non-existence of God. 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