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- Professor: You are a Christian, aren’t you, son?
- Student: Yes, sir.
- Professor: So, you believe in God?
- Student: Absolutely, sir.
- Professor: Is God good?
- Student: Sure.
- Professor: 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 God good, then? Hmm?
- (Student was silent)
- Professor: You can’t answer, can you? Let’s start again, young fella. Is God good?
- Student: Yes.
- Professor: Is Satan good?
- Student: No.
- Professor: Where does Satan come from?
- Student: From.. God.
- Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
- Student: Yes.
- Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it? And God did make everything. Correct?
- Student: Yes.
- Professor: So who created evil?
- (Student didn’t answer)
- Professor: Is there sickness? Immortality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
- Student: Yes, sir.
- Professor: So, who created them?
- (Student had no answer)
- Professor: 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.
- Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your God.
- Student: No, sir.
- Professor: 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.
- Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
- Student: Yes.
- Professor: 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.
- Professor: Yes, Faith. And that is the problem Science has.
- Student: Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
- Professor: Yes.
- Student: And is there such a thing as Cold?
- Professor: Yes.
- Student: No, sir, there isn’t.
- (The Lecture Theatre became 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 was a pon-drop silence in the Lecture Theatre)
- Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
- Professor: 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 is, You would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
- Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man?
- Student: Sir, my point is, your Philosophical Premise is flawed.
- Professor: 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?
- Professor: 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 shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was 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 was in uproar)
- Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
- (The class broke 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 and Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures?
- (The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable)
- Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on Faith, son.
- Student: That is it, sir.. exactly! The link between man and God is Faith. That is all that keeps things alive and moving!
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- That student was Albert Einstein.
- *My response would be: I know I have a brain in my head because I can get an X-Ray and the doctor can show me it. I know it's there. You can't get an X-Ray and see God, can you? & Scientists have studied the process of evolution and its obvious that it exists because they have studied it over time. You can't study god because there's nothing there to study. & Yes, Darkness and Cold do not exist: they are just words we use...that doesn't prove anything at all, just that we use those words instead of saying "absence of ___". The professor should not have said I guess you have to take me them on faith, he should of said let's get over to a hospital and I'll show you my brain, or you can cut my head off and feel it yourself. THANKS.
reading some posts of people i follow….people need to not shove their beliefs on others. I’m an atheist, and i’m annoyed because i have to keep it from my grandma, and when i have kids, i basically have to get them baptized. i don’t really mind doing it for her, since it doesn’t mean anything to me cause i don’t believe in god, so i dont think dipping my child in water is going to do anything lol. but my grandma is so religious, she prays for like 2 hours a night, and she would be absolutely heartbroken if she knew i didn’t believe, so I would just be doing it to keep her happy. I love my gram so idc.
But honestly, if someone chooses not to baptize because they’re an ATHEIST. get over it. there will be no “burning in hell” because guess what, it doesn’t EXIST. If you have a different opinion, you can think it, but don’t blab about it to the atheist who is a great person, and will love their child, but doesnt throw some water on it. if you’re gonna say something rude, keep it to yourself. stupid anons.
I’m an atheist. I don’t believe in God, and I enjoy reading about Atheism and evolution and that kind of stuff. I was raised catholic and never really thought about it until a few years ago. I don’t like people who aren’t open minded about religion, and close everyone else off. I listen to people tell me their beliefs and don’t judge them, so why am i judged?
My parents aren’t even religious (i.e. they don’t go to church EVER, even on holidays) but both their parents are/were(my dads passed away) super religious. So whenever someone brings up the subject, they get really upset that my sister and I are atheist and expect us to raise our kids christian. Um…no. Why would I do that?! That makes nooooooo sense. But anyways……yeahhhh.
be good for goodness sake
“If there is no God, If there is no divine system of morality, how do we know what’s right and wrong?” really??? it’s called being good for goodness sake. yeeeesh.
