Proof: The Rational Case for God
A Book for Skeptics. A Challenge for Atheists. A Companion for Seekers.
In a world dominated by scientific confidence and philosophical doubt, Proof: The Rational Case for God offers something rare: a calm, structured, intellectually serious examination of whether belief in a Creator is rationally defensible.
Barry B. Kaplan, author of Horology and a lifelong student of philosophy, cosmology, and Torah, began this project as a response to an atheist friend's insistence that only the scientific method can meaningfully address the question of God. What started as a private debate became a seven-year investigation spanning physics, consciousness, history, archaeology, probability, linguistics, and metaphysics.
The result is a uniquely disciplined book-one that never asks the reader to suspend reason or accept borrowed conclusions. Instead, Kaplan rebuilds the question of God from the ground up.
What is perception?
What is evidence?
What is necessary existence?
Why is there something rather than nothing?
Through clear, accessible explanations, Proof guides the reader from Plato's Cave to Descartes' Meditations, from quantum puzzles to cosmological fine-tuning, from the logic of Bayesian reasoning to the structural uniqueness of the Sinai claim. It presents the quiet, unfalsified accuracy of ancient Torah laws; the mathematical precision underlying biblical patterns; and the surprising convergence between physics, consciousness, and the metaphysical architecture encoded in Hebrew.
Rather than preaching, Kaplan engages the reader in a genuine inquiry. He does not aim to convert. He aims to illuminate-and to show that the choice is not between blind faith and scientific certainty. The real choice is between unreasonable doubt and reasonable belief.
Along the way, Proof confronts the hardest questions head-on: divine hiddenness, suffering, the silence of God, the reliability of tradition, the nature of miracles, and the limits of empirical inquiry. The book's closing movement explores the structural depth of Creation as reflected in number, language, dimension, and time-where physics and metaphysics begin to converge.
For the reader seeking a serious intellectual framework for God, this book provides it.
For the skeptic willing to entertain the possibility that their assumptions may be incomplete, this book opens doors.
For the believer who wants to understand how faith and reason can harmonize, this book strengthens the foundation.
Proof: The Rational Case for God is an invitation to reconsider what you think you know, to examine the evidence with disciplined curiosity, and to discover that the rational path may lead somewhere unexpected.
About the Author :
Barry B. Kaplan is a lifelong student and best-selling author whose career has oscillated from accounting to operations to product design, and everywhere inbetween. After graduation, Barry practiced as a Chartered Accountant (SA) and Operations Director in Johannesburg before being hired by a U.S. technology firm to work in New York. There Barry expanded his skillset to include interface and systems design, product strategy, and organizational leadership. Barry has helped build and lead companies in digital commerce, wholesale distribution, and emerging neural-wearable technologies. He served as COO of a leading US watch importer, distributor, and retailer, and more recently as EVP and board member of an international neural wearables startup that he helped navigate to the Nasdaq. He continues to operate and consult in these areas. Barry is a student of philosophy, especially Jewish philosophy. His writing is infused with Torah principles and a sustained effort to comprehend classical Jewish ideas within a contemporary physics framework. His best-selling first book, Horology (Schiffer, 2022), explores the meaning and structure of time. It also provides an overview and history of the calendar, the watch, and the watch industry. Barry lives and works in New Jerse
