Outline one philosophical argument for the existence of God.

Aquinas argued that the complexity of the world and the way that it functions is specific that it must have been made by a creator. In other words, there is such low likelihood that the world would be constructed in such a specific way such that it can maintain human life so there must be a designer who made the world.

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