Food for thought
*An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty. He invited one of his new students to a debate on this subject.
Prof: Do you believe in God?
Student: With absolute certainty sir.
Prof: Is God good?
Student: Of course God is good.
Prof: Is God all-powerful?
Student: Yes. God is all powerful.
Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed and prayed to God to heal him. Most of people would try to help those who are very ill. But God didn't. How can this God good then?
(Student is silent.)
Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, my boy. Is God good?
Student: Yes. God is good.
Prof: Is Satan good?
Student: No.
Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From...God...
Prof: Ok then,is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.
Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did create everything, right?
Student: That is correct sir
Prof: So since God created everything, then He must have created evil, right?
(Student did 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 all these bad things?
(Student not answering).
Prof: Science says you have 5 senses correct? Then tell me, boy...have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God speaking?
Student: I have not heard God speaking, 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 have not.
Prof: And yet you still believe in a God that you have never seen, smelt, taste, touch and heard?
Student: Yes.
Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD does not exist. What do you say to that, my boy?
Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.
Prof: Hah! Yes, faith, that is precisely the problem science has with this issue.
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Prof: Yes.
Student: Then 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.
Student continues: 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 classroom.)
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 light. You can have low light, normal, light, bright light, flashing light, but if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and and this nothing is called darkness. In reality, darkness does not exist. If it does, were you would be able to make darkness even darker right? But you can't.
Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student: Sir, my point is your scientific premise is flawed.
Prof: Flawed? Please then explian why it is flawed?
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 that can be measureed. 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 human beings evolved from monkies?
Prof: If you are referring to the Darwin's evolution theory, 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 seen the evolution process at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going all the time, are you not teaching it as just your own opinion, sir? In that case, then you not a scientist but a preacher, aren't you?
(The class is in an uproar.)
Student: 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 or smelt it? Apprently not, isn't it? Therefore, 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.
Prof: Do you believe in God?
Student: With absolute certainty sir.
Prof: Is God good?
Student: Of course God is good.
Prof: Is God all-powerful?
Student: Yes. God is all powerful.
Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed and prayed to God to heal him. Most of people would try to help those who are very ill. But God didn't. How can this God good then?
(Student is silent.)
Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, my boy. Is God good?
Student: Yes. God is good.
Prof: Is Satan good?
Student: No.
Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From...God...
Prof: Ok then,is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.
Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did create everything, right?
Student: That is correct sir
Prof: So since God created everything, then He must have created evil, right?
(Student did 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 all these bad things?
(Student not answering).
Prof: Science says you have 5 senses correct? Then tell me, boy...have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God speaking?
Student: I have not heard God speaking, 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 have not.
Prof: And yet you still believe in a God that you have never seen, smelt, taste, touch and heard?
Student: Yes.
Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD does not exist. What do you say to that, my boy?
Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.
Prof: Hah! Yes, faith, that is precisely the problem science has with this issue.
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Prof: Yes.
Student: Then 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.
Student continues: 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 classroom.)
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 light. You can have low light, normal, light, bright light, flashing light, but if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and and this nothing is called darkness. In reality, darkness does not exist. If it does, were you would be able to make darkness even darker right? But you can't.
Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student: Sir, my point is your scientific premise is flawed.
Prof: Flawed? Please then explian why it is flawed?
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 that can be measureed. 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 human beings evolved from monkies?
Prof: If you are referring to the Darwin's evolution theory, 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 seen the evolution process at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going all the time, are you not teaching it as just your own opinion, sir? In that case, then you not a scientist but a preacher, aren't you?
(The class is in an uproar.)
Student: 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 or smelt it? Apprently not, isn't it? Therefore, 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.