An Atheist professor of philosophy was speaking to his class on the problem
science has with God, the Almighty. He asked one of his new students to stand and...
Professor: You are a Christian, aren't you, son?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Professor: Is God good?
Student: Sure
Professor: Is God all-powerful?
Student: Yes
Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him.
Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't.
How is this God good then?
(no answer)
Professor: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again. Is God good?
Student: Yes.
Professor: Is Satan good?
Student: No.
Professor: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From God.
Professor: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.
Professor: So who created evil?
(no answer)
Professor: Is there sickness in the world? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness?
All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them?
(no answer)
Professor: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe
the world around you. Tell me son, have you ever seen God?
Student: No sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?
Student: No sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God?
Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?
Student: No sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.
Professor: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your
God doesn't exist. What do you say to that son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.
Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem science has.
Student: Professor, is there such thing as heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student: And is there such thing as cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student: No sir, there isn't.
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat,
superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't
have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which
is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing
as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat.
We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is no the opposite
of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
Student: What about darkness, professor? Is there such thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes, what is night if there isn't darkness?
Student: You're wrong again, sir.
Student: Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light,
normal light, bright light, flashing light... But if you have no light
constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn't it?
In reality, darkness isn't. If it is, wouldn't you be able to make
darkness darker?
Professor: So what is the point you are making young man?
Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality.
You argue that there is life and then there is death.
A good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept
of God as something finite, something we can measure.
Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity
and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood
either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant
of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.
death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it.
Now tell me, professor, do you teach your students that they
evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process,
yes, of course I do.
Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes?
Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work
and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor,
are you not teaching your opinion, sir?
Are you not a scientist, but a preacher?
Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the professor's brain?
Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor's brain?
Felt it? Touched it? Or smelt it? No one appears to have done so.
So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable,
demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir.
With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures?
Professor: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.
Student: That is it sir, exactly! The link between man and God is faith.
That is all that keeps things alive an moving.
That student was Albert Einstein.
