The author of What Makes Us Catholic,Thomas H. Groome, came to Chapter, today. He told us a story that explains what Aquinas said in his proof of God's existence.
Thomas and his son, Teddy were walking the beach. They came to some rocks and eddys and were looking around, and climbing, and came across a man-made little bridge some kids or someone obviously must have made. It was a plank of wood stretching across a little pool of water. It ran across two of the larger rocks, about equal size, with rocks placed on top to hold the plank steady.
Teddy exclaimed, "Daddy look. Someone made a bridge!"
Tom said, "How do you know someone made it? Maybe it just happened"
Teddy was incredulous that his father couldn't see the obvious. How could a plank of wood even exist on the beach? How could it just happen to land across this water, in this position, on these two rocks? How could rocks used as weights just happen to land in position to hold the plank steady?
Indeed...how?
It is obvious that this bridge was made by somebody.
Likewise, are we and our universe.
Right, AQ?
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