Farai's day to day

Sep 24, 2005 at 15:20 o\clock

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by: faraig

Mood: glorious
Listening to: prays music

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


Professor: You are a Christian, aren't you, son?


Student :  Yes, sir.


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: 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: Of course young man there is.


Student : And is there such a thing as cold?


Prof: Yes.


Student : No sir. You are wrong there. 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 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.



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