His cosmological argument states that every affect has a cause, which itself has a cause. You cannot have an infinite chain of causation so there must be a first cause. This first cause must be God. The second role that was established by Aquinas for God is Causa Sine - the first cause. God being transcendent does not need a cause but he is the first cause for everything within the universe.
If the teleological argument is correct in saying that God created humans like a machine, then you would expect humans to be perfect creations, but we are not. Humans are flawed in many ways including the fact that we have extra organs, and that our skeletons are not created properly for the way we walk. Humans are not machines in any way, and the fact that we are not perfect machines is explained by the theory of evolution. Therefore the theory of evolution is proof against the teleological argument and that God is the creator of the human race and the earth. I feel that this argument fails to prove the existence of God.
He believed that this mover exists necessarily so does not depend on anything or anyone to exist and can not change nor die. According to Aristotle, this necessary being provides 'teleos' (purpose) to the universe and influences movement by temptations in the universe. St. Thomas Aquinas was a medieval philosopher who developed the most famous version of the cosmological argument where he put forward five proofs (arguments) for the existence of a prime mover. Aquinas believed that this Prime Mover is God who contains all actuality and no potentiality because he is already perfect. Aquinas' first proof is based of motion and change, including growth as a person rather than just movement from one place to another.
Genesis chapter one takes us through the beginning of the universe. God created the heavens and the earth, light and darkness, seas and skies, land and vegetation, the stars (including the sun and moon), all animals in the sea and on land, and His greatest creation; man. Man, However, was God’s only creation that created on His own creation. God placed the first man Adam in the garden to work and take care of the garden and the rest of God’s creation. The earth was perfect.
Following theistic evolution, one knows that the Bible says that God created the universe. Most would assume that since God was creating the earth, all things created were created in their earliest form. Following Descartes idea that all creatures without a soul function like machines, man would have functioned like a machine until man was given a soul (Ravitch, 2012). It was not until man had reached a certain point in "growth" or "evolving" that God took man, and breathed life into him. This was a spiritual creation of man.
Although the Prime Mover and the Judeo Christian concept of God have many differences they are both responsible for the existence of our universe. The Judeo Christian concept of god is portrayed as a craftsman who purposefully created the universe in an anthropocentric way. The way in which the creation is described in Genesis 1 and 2 shows that god had a plan, as he creates the world in six days and also how he does everything with a purpose to replace the imperfect, as he replaces darkness with light. God is also aware of his creation and he takes pride in his work as he says “It is good.” This is very different to the Prime mover, as he did not create the world; he was merely responsible for the existence of it. Because the Prime Mover existed he set of a chain of reactions which caused the world into existence.
Christianity Worldviews Origin-Genesis 1:1 shows God creating the heavens and the earth in the beginning. Christianity affirms that “God is the infinite, personal (triune), transcendent and immanent, omniscient, sovereign and good being who created the universe.” (James Sire, The Universe Next Door, p.23, 26). To say that God is infinite is to say that He is a necessary Being and there was never a time when God did not exist. God is transcendent in that He is not part of the creation, but separate from it. However, He is also immanent, in that He cares for His creation, enough to reveal Himself to mankind.
The bible states that God created the earth in six days by simply speaking life into existence (Genesis 1). The big bang theory suggests that a spontaneous combustion of particles occurred and formed life over a period of a few hundred thousand years. Darwinian Evolution suggests that all creatures have the same ancestry when the word of God makes it clear that God created plants on the third day, birds on the fifth day, and man on the sixth day (Genesis 1:1-26). According to evolution, the earth is over 65 million years old. Creationists however, are working on a biblical timeframe that show that the earth is only hundreds of thousands of years old (Hindson & Caner, 2008).
Up until his voyage on the HMS Beagle, Darwin, like all others, believed in a traditional Biblical creation of all life forms. (http://anthro.palomar.edu/evolve/evolve_2.htm). Biblical creation of all things stated that all life forms, all plants, everything, was created by God alone. This was in a time when there was a very limited variety of creation theories. People’s views on life were very different to those today.
Numerous theories were proposed by scientists or religions to explain the beginning of the universe. They were questioned by people believed for their integrity. The big bang theory was challenged by many too, but it has become the model that the scientific community has widely accepted to explain the birth of the universe as it is backed up by many evidences. According to the theory, there is a finite age to the universe. At the very start, the entire universe was about a size of an atom.