{"id":3193,"date":"2010-08-09T16:52:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T23:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/3193"},"modified":"2010-08-09T16:52:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T23:52:58","slug":"monotheism-and-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/08\/09\/monotheism-and-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Monotheism and discovery."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hearing about the Alhambra today it occurred to me that the main innovation of monotheism is certainty. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no God but God&#8221; is not a religious statement (&#8220;There is a god&#8221; would suffice for that), it&#8217;s a philosophical claim. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is only one god&#8221; is not so much a statement of faith in the beyond as it is a statement of faith in what man can know. <\/p>\n<p>It is ironic that this first step towards scientific thinking should be a leap of faith. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearing about the Alhambra today it occurred to me that the main innovation of monotheism is certainty. &#8220;There is no God but God&#8221; is not a religious statement (&#8220;There is a god&#8221; would suffice for that), it&#8217;s a philosophical claim. &#8220;There is only one god&#8221; is not so much a statement of faith in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}