cold becomes hot, one would not ordinarily say that it has been moved. However, Aquinas does say this, which forces us to read Aquinas's talk of motion and being moved as talk of change or alteration of any sort. Whether we interpret the claim in its ordinary sense or the special sense just described, it obviously seems to be correct. People may doubt this, looking ahead to more radical skeptical arguments. One may doubt that anything about the external world is "certain" or "evident." Thus far, Aquinas speaks as the voice of common sense. Most ordinary atheists or agnostics would happily grant him this harmless assumption.
             The best way to describe and understand the existence of God is to use Aquinas's first argument decline with motion. Aquinas points out that objects present in the world involve motion. I believe that whatever moves, God created; therefore, God exists. The argument of motion states that there are objects that are in motion. The argument also states that objects in motion are always sent into motion by objects other than themselves. When these two meanings are tied together, people conclude that "there is an entity outside of the natural world" (Sober, 1995). The idea that if an object is in motion, it must be caused to move by something other than it
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