conversation between a student and his proffesor

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem

> >science has with God, The Almighty.

> >He asks one of his new students 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, smelt 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 endeavor, 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 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, 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.