All right. Thanks very much. It's great to be here. This is my first lecture of the new academic year.

The last lecture I gave was in May in Maryamount College. So I haven't spoken publicly all summer,

unless you can't speak to my family as public speaking. So this is going to be my warm-up lecture

for the semester ahead. Our semester starts on Monday.

Okay, so this is me just warming myself up for it. All right. So, he's going to take it easy on me.

It's okay. Right. So I'm here to talk about the existence of God. Jason gave me a nice, you know, sort of, you know, title title for the paper, God, Big Bang, Evolution.

We're going to talk about all those things, and the paper that I'm given tonight kind of covers

the material out of both my books with Oxford University Press.

So it covers issues pertaining to Aquinas' thinking on the existence of God, particularly

how to demonstrate the existence of God and what that entails for

creation, what Aquinas' views on creation are. Okay, so let's get into it. When we think about

the question of God, okay, we're thinking about the whole issue of God, and when we talk about

God, we usually, you know, use the terms such as faith, reason, all that sort of thing,

but one very peculiar thing about St. Thomas Aquinas, and a lot of the medieval philosophers and

theologians, as well as just the Christian tradition of thought in general in this regard,

is that you need to have definite proof for the existence of God. It is possible to have proof for the existence of God.

It is possible to have proof for the existence of God,

and if one is so intellectually inclined,

one ought to give proof for the existence of God.

God's existence is not an article of faith.

It's not there in any one of the articles of faith within the creed that Christians profess. So God's existence isn't an article of faith. God's existence is presupposed. It's assumed

for the articles of faith. So when somebody repeats the profession of faith, say if you're Catholic

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