God Vs Science
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and well worth the read!!
Great thought processes!
The science professor begins his school
year with a lecture to the students,
'Let me explain the problem science
has with religion.'
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,'
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? Hmmm?
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,' the professor replies.
'There's heat.'
'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 reach up 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.'
'Everybody 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 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 t his 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.
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