Monday, May 26, 2008

Belief in GOD, the almighty

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his
class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty.
He asks one of his new student to stand and.....

Prof: So you believe in God?

Student: Absolutely, sir.

Prof: Is God good?

Student: Sure.

Prof: Is God all-powerful?

Student : Yes.

Prof: 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? Hmm?

(Student is silent.)

Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start
again, young fella. Is God good?

Student :Yes.

Prof: Is Satan good?

Student : No.

Prof: Where does Satan come from?

Student : From...God...

Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in
this world?

Student : Yes.

Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did
make everything.
Correct?

Student : Yes.

Prof: So who created evil?

(Student does not answer.)

Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred?
Ugliness?
All these terrible things exist in the world,
don't they?

Student :Yes, sir.

Prof: So, who created them?

(Student has no answer.)

Prof: 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.

Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?

Student : No , sir.

Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your
God, smelled your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception
of God for that matter?

Student : No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.

Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?

Student : Yes.

Prof: 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.

Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science
has.

Student : Professor, is there such a thing as
heat?

Prof: Yes.

Student : And is there such a thing as cold?

Prof: Yes.

Student : No sir. There isn't.

(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this
turn of events.)

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 not the
opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture
theatre.)

Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there
such
a thing as darkness?

Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?

Student : You're wrong again, sir. 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 it's called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness
isn't. If it were, you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't
you?

Prof: So what is the point you are making, young
man?

Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical
premise is flawed.

Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?

Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of
duality. You argue 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?

Prof: If you are referring to the natural
evolutionary
process, yes, of course, I do.

Student : Have you ever observed evolution with
your own
eyes, sir?

(The Professor shakes his head with a smile,
beginning
to realize where the argument is going.)

Student : Since no one has ever observed the
process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this
process is an on-going endeavour, are you not teaching your opinion, sir?
Are you not a scientist
but a preacher?

(The class is in uproar.)

Student : Is there anyone in the class who has
ever seen the Professor's brain?

(The class breaks out into laughter.)

Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard
the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelled 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, sir?

(The room is silent. The professor stares at the
student,
his face unfathomable.)

Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith,
son.

Student : That is it, sir.. The link between man &
god is FAITH. That is all that keeps things moving
& alive.

That young man was ALBERT EINSTEIN.......

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