Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unattainable, the inconceivable . . . Either God is a mystery or He is nothing at all." Stace holds that God is such a mystery that any attempt to reason about him, e.g., to prove that God is the Creator of the Universe, is doomed to fail. "To ask for a proof of the existence of God is on a par with asking for a proof of the existence of beauty . . . If God does not lie at the end of any telescope, neither does He lie at the end of any syllogism...
Utterly Other. Philosopher Stace is happy that most modern Christians (except Roman Catholics) tend to play down the rational proofs of God. "Attempts at proof not only fail of their own purpose and so do no good to religion, but . . . they positively degrade it. For their effect is to drag down the divine and the eternal from their own sphere into the sphere of the natural and the temporal...
...battle sites to the sites of ancient ruins. But their race with a changing world had to keep on right up to the last. When the book was in galleys, an expedition discovered the highest peak of the Drakensberg range in South Africa; when the book was in page proof, another expedition "discovered" the headwaters of the Orinoco (TIME, Dec. 24). After that, the gazetteers began to lose out. Mt. Etna suddenly changed its height by erupting, and a British oceanographer located the deepest spot in the Pacific-both too late to make the final deadline...
...drawn up for ten other holding companies awaiting death. Said Chairman Donald Cook, the man who pushed SEC and the two giant holding companies into final action: "The package deals will end the era of the holding company. Today the utilities that have gone through the wringer are depression-proof...
When forty percent of the freshman class elects to pursue the subject of Military Science, then that fact in itself is proof enough that Military Science can find a place here at Harvard. Mr. Kameny also says it is correct to look with contempt upon the ROTC (a statement which is completely biased and seems in extremely poor taste for a supposedly educated graduate student), but I can safely inform him that most of the members of the ROTC are extremely proud of the fact that they are serving their country, whether in peace...