Did You Know An Apple is in Motion…

…even when it is just sitting there? That’s because there’s more than one kind of motion. Local motion (movement in space) is what we moderns mean by “motion”. So when an apple falls on Newton’s head, that is what moderns think of as “motion.”

But when St. Thomas speaks of “motion” he means “change of any kind”. So an apple sitting there on a shelf ripening from green to red is undergoing “motion” in the sense Thomas means it.

And that lead in exorably back to God. Mike Flynn has fun explaining it for us!