Prove It
Posted April 11th, 2010
The question at hand is not really about what’s there or what isn’t there. It’s really about how we know what’s truly there, and whether we admit we know it even if we see it, face to face. In a particularly telling scene, the one-time seminarian pulls the scientist aside and asks whether she loved her father. "Of course," she says. "Did you father love you?" he follows. "Of course," she said again; "of course I know that my father loved me." "Then prove it."
Prove it. Prove that the things in this world which you know to be true are true. Prove, by scientific method and linear reasoning, that love, for instance, is real. Prove that you are loved. Prove it – which is just as good a question to a fictional astronomer as it is to you and me, today. Prove it – which is just as good a question to 11 frightened disciples in a locked upper room.
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