"President Mandela's life is the closest thing we have to proof of God.
She had been given to him as a blessing, a proof of God".
The US president described the novel as "a lovely book – an elegant proof of God, and the power of storytelling".
The book offers elegant, user-friendly descriptions of the arguments that persuaded Flew, arguments familiar to anyone who has heard evangelical Christians' "scientific proof" of God.
The lyrics were written in the rain in Archway, and the line from the chorus – "what beautiful proof of god she was" – is lifted/stolen from a comment on the YouTube video of 40 Miles by Congress.
There's not too much time for a discussion on whether the book's "an elegant proof of God, and the power of storytelling" (sorry Mr President) but we're open to questions on Ang's impressive back catalogue if you're feline nostalgic.
That this split did actually happen can be read to some extent in the fate of the "Anselmic argument," which Immanuel Kant, 700 years later, was to reject as the "ontological proof of God"—connecting it, however, not with the name of Anselm but with that of Descartes, the earliest modern philosopher.
It reminded me of the medieval proof of God, the one Giacomo would no doubt have heard from his parish priest if he ever wondered what he had done to deserve his awful death: If there is no God, who made the universe?
Others see proof of God's handiwork.
It is living proof of God's benevolence, say Christians.
Soto calls himself Proof — of God's work, of redemption, he cautiously hopes.
