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This Will Shock You by Ademolag(m): 12:16pm On Jan 11, 2016 |
The Professor Said That There Is No
God. The Student Gave Him an
Inimitable Answer!
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An 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,’ the student says.
‘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.
‘Aha! 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 him? Would you
try?’
‘Yes sir, I would.’
‘So you’re good…!’
‘I wouldn’t say that.’
‘But why not say that? You’d help a
sick and maimed person if you
could. Most of us would if we could.
But God doesn’t.’
The student does not answer, so
the professor continues. ‘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? Can
you answer that one?’
The student remains silent. ‘No,
you can’t, can you?’ the professor
says. He takes a sip of water from a
glass on his desk to give the
student time to relax ‘Let’s start
again, young fella. Is God good?’
‘Er…yes,’ the student says.
‘Is Satan good?’
The student doesn’t hesitate on
this one. ‘No.’
‘Then where does Satan come
from?’
The student falters. ‘From God’
‘That’s right. God made Satan,
didn’t he? Tell me, son. Is there evil
in this world?’
‘Yes, sir…’
‘Evil’s everywhere, isn’t it? And God
did make everything, correct?’
‘Yes.’
‘So who created evil?’ The
professor continued, ‘If God
created everything, then God
created evil, since evil exists, and
according to the principle that our
works define who we are, then God
is evil.’
Again, the student has no answer.
‘Is there sickness? Immorality?
Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible
things, do they exist in this world?’
The student squirms on his feet.
‘Yes.’
‘So who created them?’
The student does not answer again,
so the professor repeats his
question. ‘Who created them?’
There is still no answer. Suddenly
the lecturer breaks away to pace in
front of the classroom. The class is
mesmerized. ‘Tell me,’ he
continues onto another student.
‘Do you believe in Jesus Christ,
son?’
The student’s voice betrays him
and cracks. ‘Yes, professor, I do.’
The old man stops pacing. ‘Science
says you have five senses you use
to identify and observe the world
around you. Have you ever seen
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? Have you ever had any
sensory perception of Jesus Christ,
or God for that matter?’
‘No, sir, I’m afraid I haven’t.’
‘Yet you still believe in him?’
‘Yes.’
‘According to the rules of empirical,
testable, demonstrable protocol,
science says your God doesn’t
exist… What do you say to that,
son?’
‘Nothing,’ the student replies… ‘I
only have my faith.’
‘Yes, faith,’ the professor repeats.
‘And that is the problem science
has with God. There is no
evidence…only faith.’
The student stands quietly for a
moment, before asking a question
of His own. ‘Professor, is there
such thing as heat? ’
‘Yes.’
‘And is there such a thing as cold?’
‘Yes, son, there’s cold too.’
‘No sir, there isn’t.’
The professor turns to face the
student, obviously interested. The
room suddenly becomes very
quiet. The student begins to
explain. ‘You can have lots of heat,
even more heat, super-heat,
mega-heat, unlimited heat, white
heat, a little heat or no heat, but we
don’t have anything called ‘cold’.
We can hit d own to 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 the lowest –458
degrees. Every body or object is
susceptible to study when it has or
transmits energy, and heat is what
makes a body or matter have or
transmit energy. Absolute zero
(-458 F) is the total absence of
heat. You see, sir, ‘cold’ is only a
word we use to describe the
absence of heat. We cannot
measure cold. Heat we can
measure in thermal units because
heat is energy. Cold is not the
opposite of heat, sir, just the
absence of it.’
Silence across the room. A pen
drops somewhere in the classroom,
sounding like a hammer.
‘What about darkness, professor. Is
there such a thing as darkness?’
‘Yes,’ the professor replies without
hesitation… ‘What is night if it isn’t
darkness?’
‘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, wouldn’t
you?’
The professor begins to smile at
the student in front of him. This will
be a good semester. ‘So what point
are you making, young man?’
‘Yes, professor. My point is, your
philosophical premise is flawed to
start with, and so your conclusion
must also be flawed.’
The professor’s face cannot hide
his surprise this time. ‘Flawed? Can
you explain how?’
‘You are working on the premise of
duality,’ the student explains… ‘You
argue that 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 can’t even explain a
thought. It uses electricity and
magnetism, but it 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?’
‘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 begins to shake his
head, still smiling, as he realizes
where the argument is going. A
very good semester, indeed.
‘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 now not a scientist, but
a preacher?’
The class is in uproar. The student
remains silent until the commotion
has subsided. ‘To continue the
point you were making earlier to
the other student, let me give you
an example of what I mean.’ The
student looks around the room. ‘Is
there anyone in the class who has
ever seen the professor’s brain?’
The class breaks out into laughter.
‘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. So,
according to the established rules
of empirical, stable, demonstrable
protocol, science says that you
have no brain, with all due respect,
sir.’ ‘So if science says you have no
brain, how can we trust your
lectures, sir?’
Now the room is silent. The
professor just stares at the
student, his face unreadable.
Finally, after what seems an
eternity, the old man answers. ‘I
guess you’ll have to take them on
faith.’
‘Now, you accept that there is faith,
and, in fact, faith exists with life,’
the student continues. ‘Now, sir, is
there such a thing as evil?’ Now
uncertain, the professor responds,
‘Of course, there is. We see it every
day. It is in the daily example of
man’s inhumanity to man. It is in
the multitude of crime and violence
everywhere in the world. These
manifestations are nothing else but
evil.’
To this the student replied, ‘Evil
does not exist sir, or at least it does
not exist unto itself. Evil is simply
the absence of God. It is just like
darkness and cold, a word that man
has created to describe the
absence of God. God did not create
evil Evil is the result of what
happens when man does not have
God’s love present in his heart. It’s
like the cold that comes when there
is no heat or the darkness that
comes when there is no light.’
The professor sat down.
The student was Albert Einstein |
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