A QUICK ANSWER FOR AN APIKORUS? [“Atheist”] Question How can I demonstrate quickly and conclusively to an apikorus that there is a Creator? Answer That is an easy question to answer. Show him an orange. That is all you need. Why is the orange so beautifully colored on the outside while on the underside of the peel there is no color at all? And not only the orange. Why are all beautifully colored fruits only colored on the outside while the underside has no color? What do you say? That it happened by random? That it’s coincidence? The color of the orange alone disproves that. It demonstrates plan and purpose. Color makes the fruit conspicuous among the leaves. Color tells you that the fruit is ripe. Color says, “Come and eat me!” And the fact that the color is not wasted —it’s only on the outside where it can be seen by the prospective eaters — demonstrates conclusively that the orange was made with a purpose. Once that is demonstrated, there is nothing further needed to be said, because purpose can’t come of itself. And even though others would ridicule anything that is said in plain English — they would never consider anything not couched in a long-winded dissertation with six-inch words and a long bibliography at the end — nevertheless, there have been plenty of long dissertations with long bibliographies that today are worthless even in the eyes of the scientists themselves. Furthermore, if you want a dissertation with a long bibliography, look at the fruit stand. As you walk down the avenue and see one fruit stand after the other, with oranges and other brightly-colored fruits glowing, imagine that you’re reading reading a major dissertation on the plan and purpose of nature. Each stand is another tome of bibliographies. Each fruit is another long, authoritative footnote. These tomes speak to you as clearly as could be. The simple orange ridicules all who say it came about at random. To the contrary, the orange screams, “I was not made at random! I am a testament to plan and purpose!”

Miller, Rabbi Avigdor. Rav Avigdor Miller on Emunah and Bitachon . The Judaica Press, Inc.. Kindle Edition.