Did Aquinas prove the existence of God in his "Third Way" when he stated that if nothing is permanent, there must have been a time when nothing existed?
"Therefore, we cannot but admit the existence of some being having of itself its own necessity, and not receiving it from another, but rather causing in others their necessity. This all men speak of as God." - St. Thomas Aquinas
Premise 1. Every temporally contingent being possibly fails to exist at some time:
Premise 2. If all things possibly fail to exist at some time then it is possible that all things fail to exist at some past time:
Premise 3. It is necessarily the case that possible truths are explicable:
Premise 4. It is necessarily the case that something is explicable only if there was not a time when nothing existed:
Premise 5. Whatever is temporally necessary might be unlimited:
Premise 6. Whatever might explain itself is unlimited:
Premise 7. Nothing which is unlimited can be explained by anything else:
Premise 8. Everything which is unlimited is supreme:
Premise 9. Something is temporally necessary if and only if it is not temporally contingent:
THEREFORE, there exists a supreme being.
What now KEEFER!?!?!!!