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The First-Cause Argument
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The first-cause argument: everything that exists has a cause; an infinite chain of causes explains nothing; therefore an uncaused first cause—God—exists.
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Aquinas made it the second of his Five Ways: trace any motion or effect backward and the chain must start somewhere.