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Hey there, Sprouts.

Today is Tuesday, September 14th, 2021.

This week we will be talking about evidence, proof, or even clues that God truly does exist.

Because this is where we need to start as we work to defend our beautiful, rich Catholic faith. So yesterday I told you that there are three clues that

really help us know without doubt that God exists. And the first clue comes from the universe. So when we say universe,

we mean all matter, all energy, all time and space that we can somehow experience. So it's everything

in the room that you're in, but also everything in

your city, in your state, in your country, the depths of the ocean, the air that fills the

atmosphere, but even beyond that, it's everything that we can see in a telescope. It's everything

that can be reached through a spaceship or a satellite, that all of that,

everything that can be experienced is part of the universe.

Okay.

So it's very big.

So here is how the argument goes.

The argument is that everything that begins to exist has a cause. So everything in this universe, and even the

universe itself, everything that began, that had a beginning, it had to be caused by something.

For example, a plant, right? We can say, well, this is here because a seed fell,

because water came at the right time, because of sunshine. All of those things caused it to happen.

Even children, right? We know that they come from parents. All the things, the buildings we

live in, they all had a cause. But if you go all the way back to the beginning, to the very formation

of these planets, scientists tell us that the universe itself had a beginning. In fact, they can even date it and say

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