"When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all."
-C.S. Lewis
Aquina's second way he describes is the argument from causation or more easily described as an account of the universe.
1)For everything (material) there's an efficient cause.
2)Nothing's an efficient cause of itself.
3)There must be a first cause, which is what some people call God.
4)It's not possible to have an infinite chain of causes.
However, people may question why must everything have a cause? Or what caused God to act? Let's look at the first question. According to Aristotle and his four causes: everything is made up of a material or substance: the first cause. We'll use a brick for this example. Then it has an efficient cause: a stonemason. Next, comes the final cause, what it's used for: dividing property. And finally every object has a formal cause or its full actuality: a "wallness". Every seemingly meaningless object has a desired purpose and a desired goal to reach its actuality. Without a cause or purpose, the object couldn't function and would cease to exist.
Also, as Aristotle described earlier, God is uncreated and independent of the world. He is defined as the Unmoved Mover and remains outside the realms of arguments and quantum physics.
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