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What if the things hardest to explain are actually the most real?

You trust gravity every day, even though no one can tell you what it actually is. You experience consciousness, though scientists can't explain how matter becomes aware. You build your life on love, even though it can't be measured or quantified. You pursue meaning, seek beauty, and make moral choices—all things that resist complete explanation.

So why do we treat God differently?

Hard to Explain takes you on a journey through the mysteries that surround us—from the physics of gravity and dark matter to the emergence of life and consciousness, from the experience of love and beauty to questions of meaning and morality. Along the way, you'll discover a surprising pattern: the most fundamental realities we trust are often the hardest to fully understand.

For teens and young adults wrestling with big questions:

Can I believe in God and still trust science? Isn't faith just believing without evidence? If I can't understand God completely, how can I trust Him? Don't we outgrow religion as we learn more about the universe?

This book shows that "hard to explain" has never been a good reason to reject something as unreal. You already trust countless mysteries. The question is whether the ultimate mystery—a personal God who created everything and wants to be known—deserves that same trust.

What makes this book different:

Written in a conversational, honest style that respects both your questions and your intelligence, Hard to Explain doesn't ask you to check your brain at the door. Instead, it shows how faith and reason work together, how science's own foundations rest on unprovable assumptions, and how the biblical God provides the framework that makes both science and human experience make sense.

You'll explore:

Why the universe exists at all (and why "it just does" isn't an answer) How physical constants are fine-tuned for life with impossible precision Why consciousness can't be reduced to brain chemistry Where love, beauty, and meaning come from in a material universe Why objective morality points to something beyond human opinion How God is known through His effects, just like dark matter or gravity Why a personal God changes everything about how we approach mystery

This isn't about having all the answers. It's about discovering that the God who reveals Himself in Scripture and ultimately in Jesus Christ is both hard to fully explain and possible to genuinely know. Just like love. Just like consciousness. Just like all the profound realities that make life worth living.

If you've ever felt caught between faith and reason, if you're curious about God but skeptical of easy answers, if you want to believe but need good reasons—this book is for you.

Hard to explain doesn't mean not real. It might mean exactly what we'd expect from the most real reality of all.