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So this talk is going to be about the question of whether God exists.

You know, the question is just does God exist.

I'm going to spend about half the talk really just talking about the question,

the meaning and the force of the question, and what it would take to offer a philosophical answer

to the question. And then the second half of the talk, roughly the second half,

will be a quick run through of one of the ways that St. Thomas argues for the existence of God.

And the plan is to leave lots and lots of time for Q&A. So Father was telling me, for those who

were involved in the Catholic Student Association, a number of you have been already participating

in a kind of series of talks and

presentations about arguments for God's existence. So some of what I'll be doing will be sort

of retracing things that you've encountered before. And for others, it may be the first time

that you've encountered some of these concepts. So we can look forward to the Q&A as the time.

You know, if you've heard some of these ideas before and you have objections ready to go or questions ready to go, please ask them in the Q&A.

So, I mean, we should begin by saying that it's very safe to say that we can all agree that if there is any distinction to be made between big questions and small questions, then the question of whether

God exists is among the very biggest of questions. We think of questions as big for several reasons.

Sometimes a question is big because of how fundamentally its answer might impact our understanding

of the world, or how its

answer might provide a principle for answering other questions.

So we might say that that's a question that's big in theoretical or scientific terms.

Sometimes a question is big because of how much the answer to the question matters to us,

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