In my previous rebuttal, I examined Stephen Woodford's debunking of Dr. Peter Craves' informal summary of St. Thomas Aquinas' argument from motion for the existence of God.

In this video, Woodford does a deeper dive into Catholic philosopher Ed Fasers' more developed version of the argument from motion.

And for that, Woodford should be commended.

Frankly, many atheists aren't even aware of the strongest versions of this argument.

Now, let's jump into his video and I'll share with you some of my thoughts.

When asked to justify the existence of his God, Ben predominantly relies on two arguments, that being the argument from sufficient reason.

One is the principle of sufficient reason, this idea that we have the capacity to understand the universe.

And the other, and most prominent, is Thomas Aquinas' rendition of Aristotle's Unmoved Mover.

And it's this argument that I'm going to respond to within this video, as given away by the thumbnail.

So I'm going to make now an Aristotelian slash Aquinas' argument for the existence of God.

So the basic idea, and I'm going to try and boil this down so that it makes some sense.

The basic Aristotelian argument for the existence of an Unmoved Mover is the idea that there are a bunch of every object around you has actual and potential.

It has an actuality and it has potential.

So if you have a candle and it's made of wax, it has the potential to be a pool of wax.

But that potential is not fulfilled unless something acts upon it.

The only thing that can act upon an object and make it fulfill its potential is either another object that has its own potential,

or something that is pure actuality.

It does not have any potential, it just exists.

So the idea in the Aristotelian argument for God is that if you don't want an infinite regress of causes,

if you don't want an infinite regress of things that have actuality and potential,

and then something has to actualize it and something has to actualize it,

you have to come to the unactualized actualizer, a thing that just exists.

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