Claim: The Existence of God has been argued through a philosophical argument.

Edward C. Feser -LRB- born April 16 , 1968 -RRB- is an American associate professor of philosophy at Pasadena City College . He has also been a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University and a visiting scholar at the social philosophy and policy center at Bowling Green State University in Ohio . He graduated from the University of California , Santa Barbara in 1999 with a PhD in philosophy ; his thesis was entitled `` Russell , Hayek , and the mind-body problem '' .   By his own account , Feser had been an atheist for ten years during his early adulthood . However , as a graduate student in philosophy , his deep readings of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas led him back to a Christian belief in God and the Catholic Church -LRB- he had been baptized and confirmed as a child -RRB- . He is now harshly critical of the `` New Atheists '' for what he claims are their straw man caricatures and distortions of classical theological arguments . He also considers intelligent design to be incompatible with the classical Thomistic arguments for the existence of God . Feser has also voiced support for felony disenfranchisement .   Feser is the author of the polemical book , The Last Superstition : A Refutation of the New Atheism , in which he makes a philosophical argument for the classical Aristotelian-Thomistic worldview over and against the materialist assumptions and scientistic prejudices of contemporary atheists such as Richard Dawkins , of whom he is particularly critical . Additionally , Feser has written a number of articles for the website of the politically conservative Witherspoon Institute .