An 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? 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
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.’

‘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
hit d own 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. Every body 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 it 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 this 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.
The student was Albert Einstein.

lies!

there is no record of Einstein challenging any of his lecturer or instructor.

in fact Einstein has speech impediment and dis made some of his lecturers and teachers to falsely assume that he is dumb.



take ur lies elsewhere.

nwaanambra1:
lies!

there is no record of Einstein challenging any of his lecturer or instructor.

in fact Einstein has speech impediment and dis made some of his lecturers and teachers to falsely assume that he is dumb.



take ur lies elsewhere.

thats what u think, reserch before concluding

Emeraldcute:

thats what u think, reserch before concluding

Brilliant piece, absolutely brilliant

Is there a movie on this?