Interesting conversation

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: (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: (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: (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.: 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 persception 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 emphirical, testable, demostrable, 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 theater becomes, very quite with this turned of events.)

Student: sir, you can have lots of heat even more heat, super heat, 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 a 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 its called
darkness isn't it . . . , 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: s i r, 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 us students that they evolved from a monkey?

Prof.: if you are referring to the natural evolutionary processs, yes, of
course, i do.

Student: have you ever observed evolution with our own eyes, sir?

Prof.: (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?

Narrator - class in an uproar

Student: is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's
brain?

Prof.: (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, testable, demonstrable,
protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir.with due respect, sir.
how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

Narrator: (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 keep things moving & alive.