{"id":241,"date":"2008-11-06T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2022-04-11T23:51:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T03:51:29","slug":"proof-enough-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2008\/11\/proof-enough-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Proof Enough for Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-242\" title=\"Desire for God\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/proofcrop-139x300.jpg\" alt=\"Desire for God\" width=\"139\" height=\"300\" \/><em>Killing the Buddha<\/em>, a wonderful old webmagazine founded by Jeff Sharlet and Peter Manseau, has just published an essay of mine called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.killingthebuddha.com\/confession\/schneider_proof.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proof Enough for Me<\/a>.&#8221; KtB hails from way back in 2000 with nary a redesign in site, which is why I&#8217;m currently helping to give the site a total facelift. The essay is the first published glimpse of my ongoing project for the last year, a book on proofs for the existence of God. Longtime readers may recognize themes from an essay from several years ago, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/papers\/DialecticalProof.pdf\">Proving What We See with the Eyes of Love<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I was eighteen years old, I thought that I&#8217;d discovered a proof for the existence of God. The possibility jazzed me in secret for years, and I&#8217;ve told few about it out of fear that someone might untangle its logic and ruin it. But by now, there isn&#8217;t any going back. The proof has already had its way with me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-242\" title=\"Desire for God\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/proofcrop-139x300.jpg\" alt=\"Desire for God\" width=\"139\" height=\"300\" \/><em>Killing the Buddha<\/em>, a wonderful old webmagazine founded by Jeff Sharlet and Peter Manseau, has just published an essay of mine called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.killingthebuddha.com\/confession\/schneider_proof.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proof Enough for Me<\/a>.&#8221; KtB hails from way back in 2000 with nary a redesign in site, which is why I&#8217;m currently helping to give the site a total facelift. The essay is the first published glimpse of my ongoing project for the last year, a book on proofs for the existence of God. Longtime readers may recognize themes from an essay from several years ago, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/papers\/DialecticalProof.pdf\">Proving What We See with the Eyes of Love<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I was eighteen years old, I thought that I&#8217;d discovered a proof for the existence of God. The possibility jazzed me in secret for years, and I&#8217;ve told few about it out of fear that someone might untangle its logic and ruin it. But by now, there isn&#8217;t any going back. The proof has already had its way with me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,40,92,77],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-existence-of-god","tag-logic","tag-proof","tag-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5691,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/5691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}