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Random3838 · 36-40, M
Aristotle said "the unmoved mover".
Aristotle’s fundamental principle is that everything that is in motion is moved by something else, and he offers a number of arguments to this effect. He argues that there cannot be an infinite series of moved movers. If it is true that when A is in motion there must be some B that moves A, then if B is itself in motion there must be some C moving B, and so on. This series cannot go on forever, and so it must come to a halt in some X that is a cause of motion but does not move itself—an unmoved mover.
Since the motion it causes is everlasting, this X must itself be an eternal substance. It must lack matter, for it cannot come into existence or go out of existence by turning into anything else.
In other words, God created the universe.
Aristotle’s fundamental principle is that everything that is in motion is moved by something else, and he offers a number of arguments to this effect. He argues that there cannot be an infinite series of moved movers. If it is true that when A is in motion there must be some B that moves A, then if B is itself in motion there must be some C moving B, and so on. This series cannot go on forever, and so it must come to a halt in some X that is a cause of motion but does not move itself—an unmoved mover.
Since the motion it causes is everlasting, this X must itself be an eternal substance. It must lack matter, for it cannot come into existence or go out of existence by turning into anything else.
In other words, God created the universe.