The Atheist Professor vs the Christian Student

"LET ME EXPLAIN THE
problem science has
with Jesus Christ."
The atheist
professor of
philosophy pauses before his class
and then asks one
of his new
students to stand.
"You're a Christian,
aren't you, son?"
"Yes, sir."
"So you believe in
God?"
"Absolutely."
"Is God good?"
"Sure! God's good."
"Is God all-
powerful? Can God
do anything?"
"Yes."
"Are you good or
evil?"
"The Bible says I'm
evil."
The professor grins
knowingly. "Ahh!
THE BIBLE!" He
considers for a
moment. "Here's
one for you. Let's say there's a sick
person over here
and you can cure
him. You can do it.
Would you help
them? Would you try?"
"Yes sir, I would."
"So you're good...!"
"I wouldn't say
that."
"Why not say that?
You would help a
sick and maimed
person if you
could... in fact most
of us would if we could...God
doesn't." [No
answer.] "He
doesn't, does he?
My brother was a
Christian who died of cancer even
though he prayed
to Jesus to heal
him. How is this
Jesus good? Hmmm?
Can you answer that one?" [No
answer] The elderly
man is sympathetic.
"No, you can't, can
you?" He takes a
sip of water from a glass on his desk
to give the
student time to
relax. In philosophy,
you have to go
easy with the new ones. "Let's start
again, young
fella.....Is God
good?"
"Er... Yes."
"Is Satan good?"
"No."
"Where does Satan
come from?"
The student
falters. "From...
God..."
"That's right. God
made Satan, didn't
he?" The elderly
man runs his bony
fingers through his
thinning hair and turns to the
smirking, student
audience. "I think
we're going to
have a lot of fun
this semester, ladies and
gentlemen." He
turns back to the
Christian. "Tell me,
son. Is there evil in
this world?"
"Yes, sir."
"Evil's everywhere,
isn't it? Did God
make everything?"
"Yes."
"Who created evil?
[No answer] "Is
there sickness in
this world?
Immorality? Hatred?
Ugliness? All the terrible things - do
they exist in this
world? "
The student
squirms on his feet.
"Yes."
"Who created
them?" [No answer]
The professor
suddenly shouts at
his student. "WHO
CREATED THEM? TELL ME, PLEASE!" The
professor closes in
for the kill and
climbs into the
Christian's face. In
a still small voice: "God created all
evil, didn't He,
son?" [No answer] The student tries
to hold the steady,
experienced gaze
and fails. Suddenly
the lecturer breaks
away to pace the front of the
classroom like an
aging panther. The
class is mesmerized.
"Tell me," he
continues, "how is it that this God is
good if He created
all evil throughout
all time?" The
professor swishes
his arms around to encompass the
wickedness of the
world. "All the
hatred, the
brutality, all the
pain, all the torture, all the
death and ugliness
and all the
suffering created
by this good God is
all over the world, isn't it, young
man?" [No answer]
"Don't you see it
all over the place?
Huh?" [Pause]
"Don't you?" The professor leans
into the student's
face again and
whispers, "Is God
good?" [No answer]
"Do you believe in Jesus Christ, son?"
The student's voice
betrays him and
cracks. "Yes,
professor. I do."
The old man shakes
his head sadly.
"Science says you
have five senses
you use to identify
and observe the world around you.
Have you ever
seen your Jesus?"
"No, sir. I've never
seen Him."
"Then tell us if
you've ever heard
your Jesus?"
"No, sir. I have
not."
"Have you ever felt
your Jesus, tasted
your Jesus or
smelt your
Jesus...in fact, do
you have any sensory perception
of your God
whatsoever?"
[No
answer]
"Answer
me, please."
"No, sir, I'm afraid I
haven't."
"You're AFRAID...you
haven't?"
"No, sir."
"Yet you still
believe in him?"
"Yes..."
"That takes FAITH!"
The professor
smiles sagely at
the underling.
"According to the
rules of empirical, testable,
demonstrable
protocol, science
says your God
doesn't exist. What
do you say to that, son? Where is
your God
now?"
[The student
doesn't answer]
"Sit down, please." The Christian
sits...Defeated. Another Christian
raises his hand.
"Professor, may I
address the class?"
The professor
turns and smiles.
"Ah, another
Christian in the
vanguard! Come,
come, young man. Speak some proper
wisdom to the
gathering."
The Christian looks
around the room.
"Some interesting
points you are
making, sir. Now
I've got a question for you. Is there
such thing as
heat?"
"Yes," the
professor replies.
"There's heat."
"Is there such a
thing as cold?" "Yes, son, there's
cold too."
"No, sir, there
isn't." The professor's
grin freezes. The
room suddenly goes
very cold. The second
Christian continues.
"You can have lots
of heat, even more
heat, super-heat,
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, otherwise we would be able to
go colder than 458
- You see, sir, cold
is only a word we
use to describe the
absence of heat. Because heat is
energy. Cold is not
the opposite of
heat, sir,
just..," [Silence fills
the room] "...the absence of
it." [More silence. A
pin drops
somewhere in the
classroom.]
"Is
there such a thing as darkness,
professor?"
"That's a dumb
question, son. What
is night if it isn't
darkness? What
are you getting
at...?"
"So you say there
is such a thing as
darkness?"
"Yes..."
"You're wrong
again, sir. Darkness
is not something, it
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?
That's the meaning
we use to define
the word. In
reality, Darkness
isn't. If it were, you would be able
to make darkness
darker and give me
a jar of it. Can
you...give me a jar
of darker darkness,
professor?"
Despite himself, the
professor smiles at
the young
effrontery before
him. This will indeed
be a good semester. "Would
you mind telling us
what your point is,
young man?"
"Yes, professor. My
point is, your
philosophical
premise is flawed
to start with and
so your conclusion must be in error...."
The professor goes
toxic. "Flawed...?
How dare you...!"
"Sir, may I explain
what I mean?"
The
class is all ears. "Explain...oh
explain..." The
professor makes an
admirable effort to
regain control.
Suddenly he is affability itself. He
waves his hand to
silence the class,
for the student to
continue.
"You are working
on the premise of
duality," the
Christian explains.
"That for example
there is life and then there's death;
a good God and a
bad God. You are
viewing the
concept of God as
something finite, something we can
measure. Sir,
science cannot
even explain a
thought. It uses
electricity and magnetism but has
never seen, much
less fully
understood them.
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, merely the
absence of it." The young man
holds up a
0newspaper he
takes from the
desk of a neighbor
who has been reading it. "Here is
one of the most
disgusting tabloids
this country hosts,
professor. Is there
such a thing as immorality?"
"Of course there is,
now look..."
"Wrong again, sir.
You see, immorality
is merely the
absence of
morality. Is there
such thing as injustice? No.
Injustice is the
absence of justice.
Is there such a
thing as evil?" The
Christian pauses. "Isn't evil the
absence of
good?" [The
teacher is
temporarily
speechless.] The Christian continues.
"If there is evil in
the world,
professor, and we
all agree there is,
then God, if he exists, must be
accomplishing a
work through the
agency of evil.
What is that work,
God is accomplishing? The
Bible tells us it is
to see if each one
of us will, of our
own free will,
choose good over evil."
The professor
bridles. "As a
philosophical
scientist, I don't
view this matter as
having anything to do with any choice;
as a realist, I
absolutely do not
recognize the
concept of God or
any other theological factor
as being part of
the world equation
because God is not
observable." "I would have
thought that the
absence of God's
moral code in this
world is probably
one of the most observable
phenomena going,"
the Christian
replies.
"Newspapers make
billions of dollars reporting it every
week! Tell me,
professor. Do you
teach your
students that they
evolved from a monkey?"
"If you are
referring to the
natural
evolutionary
process, young
man, yes, of course I do."
"Have you ever
observed evolution
with your own
eyes, sir?"
[The
professor makes a
sucking sound with his teeth and gives
his student a
silent, stony stare.]
"Professor. Since
no-one has ever
observed the process of
evolution at work
and cannot even
prove that this
process is an
ongoing endeavor, are you not
teaching your
opinion, sir? Are
you now not a
scientist, but a
priest?"
"I'll overlook your
impudence in the
light of our
philosophical
discussion. Now,
have you quite finished?" the
professor hisses.
"So you don't
accept God's moral
code to do what is
righteous?"
"I believe in what
is-that's science!"
"Ahh! SCIENCE!" the
student's face
splits into a grin.
"Sir, you rightly
state that science
is the study of observed
phenomena. Science
too is a premise
which is flawed..."
"SCIENCE IS
FLAWED?" the
professor splutters.
The class is in
uproar. The Christian
remains standing
until the commotion
has subsided.
"To
continue the point
you were making earlier to the
other student, may
I give you an
example of what I
mean?"
[The
professor wisely keeps silent.]
The
Christian looks
around the room.
"Is there anyone in
the class who has
ever seen the professor's brain?"
The class breaks
out in laughter.The
Christian points
towards his elderly,
crumbling tutor. "Is there anyone here
who has ever
heard the
professor's
brain...felt the
professor's brain, touched or smelt
the professor's
brain?" No one
appears to have
done so. The
Christian shakes his head sadly. "It
appears no-one
here has had any
sensory perception
of the professor's
brain whatsoever. Well, according to
the rules of
empirical, stable,
demonstrable
protocol, science, I
DECLARE that the professor has no
brain." The class is in
chaos.

Source: www.patrish.com/atheist.html


Holla-me-leykon

Don't mind my kpalasa phone(at the arrangements), try to understand and pls comment

trash. his logic is over flawed.

Nice one op

atheist where una?

atheists where una?

I will like to knw if that professor is just a nickname or an academic professor

That is to say... They have no brain.

Lol@ the total sum of the region infested brain.

Funny that op and his time work very hard to highlight the shrinking effects of religion on the human brain.