Something has the power of existence in and of itself eternally, or the simplest child can understand

nothing could possibly exist now.

I was listening to a talk show one night, radio talk show, where they had an atheist philosopher,

they had a Roman Catholic, Jesuit theologian, and a Protestant theologian.

And they were debating arguments for the existence of God.

And they were getting in all kinds of sophisticated debates about the ontological argument

and the cosmological argument and so on.

And then they started receiving phone calls.

And they got a call from a woman who was obviously uneducated and unsophisticated.

And she used broken grammar and poor grammar to express her protest.

I don't know what's wrong with Yin's people.

Why don't Yinz just go outside and open your eyes? You know? She was saying, it's clear. It's manifest.

How can you miss it? People say to me, he said, Sprodo you think he can prove the existence

of God? I said, with the greatest of these.

They said, give me some evidence.

I take my shoe off.

I said, look at that.

That proves conclusively, compellingly, demonstratively, the eternal existence of Almighty God.

Oh, they say, you mean you're giving probable evidence?

No, I'm giving certainty.

So why?

I said, if it exists, if you see a shoe here, if there's anything here that's a shoe,

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