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What did Plato (a pagan, 400BC) state?

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The human body with all it’s parts must owe it’s origin to to a creator
- ‘the royal soul and mind in the nature of Zeus’

2
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How Did Cicero (Roman thinker, 106-43BC) also offer a form of the argument?

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‘what could be more clear or obvious when we look up to the sky and contemplate the heavens, than there is some divinity or intelligence’

3
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In more modern times what had the argument been made into?

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  • A theistic argument by the links of Aquinas - seeking to prove the existence of God of classical theism