Unmoved Mover - rebecca hagen

I love Aristotle’s idea of the Unmoved Mover. This concept is how he comes about proving that there is a God. Aristotle believes that everything in this world is in motion. What we do, cause something else to happen, which causes another to happen and so on. It is an uncontrollable and universal chain of events. Aristotle explains his views with six proofs:
1) There exists movement in the world.
2) Things that move were set into motion by something else.
3) If everything that moves was caused to move by something else, there would be an infinite chain of causes. This can't happen.
4) Thus, there must have been something that caused the first movement.
5) From 3, this first cause cannot itself have been moved.
6) From 4, there must be an unmoved mover.
Because there can be no infinite circle of events, there must have been an unmoved mover who started it all. This unmoved mover is God. He is indivisible, perfectly made and makes all things perfect. Although Aristotle claims that there can be numerous unmoved movers, he strongly believes that there must be one leading the many and again it shifts back to proving the existence of a god.
I always find myself intrigued by this subject; that everything we do starts a new chain of events within the universe. Although personally, I am not a very religious person, I do find Aristotle’s reasoning to be very believable. To me, it does not make sense that movement like that of a chain of events, could come back to the beginning in a circle-like shape. The chain does need a start and thus a starter, to begin a strand of infinite movements.