In the Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas gives his famous Five Ways or five arguments for the existence of God. In the fourth argument, Aquinas observes that things in the world have varying degrees of qualities, i.e., some things are better than others, more true, more noble, etc. “More” or “less”  or “better” or “worse” are predicated of different things according to how they compare to a maximum; therefore, there must be a “best” or “truest” being. He argues that because there is scale of quality, there must be a supreme standard which caused the scale. The supreme standard is the God of the Bible.

Applying Aquinas’ 4th way to Dawkins’ recent claims about Christian culture is an opportunity for apologists to point out something: By revealing his preference for Christian culture (2024), specifically the beauty of Christian music and architecture, atheist Richard Dawkins recognizes degrees of beauty and (unwittingly) confirms God’s existence.