do you believe in god?

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his
class on the problem science has with God, The
Almighty.
He asks one of his new students to stand and…..
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?
Sudent 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: Tell us if you have ever heard your 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: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as cold?
Prof: Yes.
Student: No sir. 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 endeavor,
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