A Big Enough Explanation
This is a persuasive speech I wrote. (for speech class) Hope you enjoy.
A Big Enough Explanation
Before I begin, I want to recognize Ravi Zacharias, from whom I learned. I would highly encourage you to learn from this mans god-given wisdom as well, if you haven’t already. And if you have, to help in the spreading of this wisdom. How do you think the universe came to be? How did life come to exist? And why do we struggle so much with each other over what’s right and wrong? I want to appeal to your logical mind as I present an explanation.
To start with, the universe cannot explain itself. Take an atom, a molecule, any piece of matter. However you look at it, breaking matter down to the smallest bit, it can’t have created itself. Matter cannot explain itself. This leads to something outside of the physical realm. Something without a physical form, therefore spiritual, had to form matter to start with.
Secondly, the universe has order. Study creation and you find incredible complexity. Immediately you recognize that a mind had to come before. Example, you don’t see a senate bill and think it came as a result of politicians throwing a tantrum. Well, that’s possible actually. Try this then, a little factual evidence of a mind, the enzyme. Now, the human body has fifty trillion cells, which is a conservative estimate. These cells are made up of genes, which are made up of enzymes. The probability of an enzyme being created by chance is, again a conservative and rough estimate, one in ten to the forty-thousandth power. Such a number is so large it is practically useless; it’s more than the atoms in the universe. That is the enzyme, which is part of a gene, which is part of a cell, of which fifty trillion somehow came together to form a human body? That is mathematically and logically impossible.
Okay, last is our question of morality. This may start to sound like a gray subject to you, but bear with me. Ingrained in everyone is some sense of right and wrong, some sense of what is just and what is unfair. Look at history, and you find that, the question of why we have moral feeling, and the fact that we obviously do, are both clear. This requires an answer. Morality can’t have come from any one human, because no one human can say they are right. Why can’t you or I be right? And we can’t all have our own set of rules for morality, because that is moral relativism. Now I don’t want to get into the subject of moral relativism, but just let me summarize. Everyone having his or her own set of morals is moral relativism. Here’s a quick example. Say you have an ipod. I’ll take it with no intention of returning it. You know that it’s yours, and that it’s wrong for me to just take it. But by my moral code, there isn’t anything wrong with that. You can quickly see how moral relativism by logic, cannot be feasible.
So the first point is that matter can’t come from itself. A spiritual creator. The second point is an intelligent mind is assumed because of complex design, and the third point is our ingrained morality. Spiritual beginning. Intelligent mind. And morality.
Now the end. There are four fundamental questions humans ask, and they are origin, meaning, morality and destiny. If you would, take these four questions and the three points. When you put them all together, only God is awesome enough to explain the universe, our existence, and our inherent morality.
Read by whoever is reading at the moment. Written by Benjamin Bretey
A Big Enough Explanation
Before I begin, I want to recognize Ravi Zacharias, from whom I learned. I would highly encourage you to learn from this mans god-given wisdom as well, if you haven’t already. And if you have, to help in the spreading of this wisdom. How do you think the universe came to be? How did life come to exist? And why do we struggle so much with each other over what’s right and wrong? I want to appeal to your logical mind as I present an explanation.
To start with, the universe cannot explain itself. Take an atom, a molecule, any piece of matter. However you look at it, breaking matter down to the smallest bit, it can’t have created itself. Matter cannot explain itself. This leads to something outside of the physical realm. Something without a physical form, therefore spiritual, had to form matter to start with.
Secondly, the universe has order. Study creation and you find incredible complexity. Immediately you recognize that a mind had to come before. Example, you don’t see a senate bill and think it came as a result of politicians throwing a tantrum. Well, that’s possible actually. Try this then, a little factual evidence of a mind, the enzyme. Now, the human body has fifty trillion cells, which is a conservative estimate. These cells are made up of genes, which are made up of enzymes. The probability of an enzyme being created by chance is, again a conservative and rough estimate, one in ten to the forty-thousandth power. Such a number is so large it is practically useless; it’s more than the atoms in the universe. That is the enzyme, which is part of a gene, which is part of a cell, of which fifty trillion somehow came together to form a human body? That is mathematically and logically impossible.
Okay, last is our question of morality. This may start to sound like a gray subject to you, but bear with me. Ingrained in everyone is some sense of right and wrong, some sense of what is just and what is unfair. Look at history, and you find that, the question of why we have moral feeling, and the fact that we obviously do, are both clear. This requires an answer. Morality can’t have come from any one human, because no one human can say they are right. Why can’t you or I be right? And we can’t all have our own set of rules for morality, because that is moral relativism. Now I don’t want to get into the subject of moral relativism, but just let me summarize. Everyone having his or her own set of morals is moral relativism. Here’s a quick example. Say you have an ipod. I’ll take it with no intention of returning it. You know that it’s yours, and that it’s wrong for me to just take it. But by my moral code, there isn’t anything wrong with that. You can quickly see how moral relativism by logic, cannot be feasible.
So the first point is that matter can’t come from itself. A spiritual creator. The second point is an intelligent mind is assumed because of complex design, and the third point is our ingrained morality. Spiritual beginning. Intelligent mind. And morality.
Now the end. There are four fundamental questions humans ask, and they are origin, meaning, morality and destiny. If you would, take these four questions and the three points. When you put them all together, only God is awesome enough to explain the universe, our existence, and our inherent morality.
Read by whoever is reading at the moment. Written by Benjamin Bretey
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