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The Student and the Professor

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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.

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 theater 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 pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)

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 its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, well you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?

Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?

Student : Yes.

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 this 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 did not answer.)

Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? 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?

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, 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 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 & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.

P.S.

By the way, that student was EINSTEIN.
 
Its a nice story, one that I have seen floating around the web with various names attached to the end of this and I believe to be nothing more than a nice story. The point the student makes about evolution is moot.

Einstein himself most definitely did not believe in a personal God as is being portrayed in the blatant piece of misinforming Christian propaganda above - as is demonstrated below:

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

- Albert Einstein, letter to an atheist (1954)

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere.... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

- Albert Einstein, "Religion and Science,"
 
a 1 player said:
Where should I start tearing this apart?

while many would wish it to be true, i bet with a little investigation snopes would prove it to be false......einstein is way too smart to say that since no one has actually observed evolution in progress, it has to be taken on faith. there are thousands upon thousands of pieces of scientific evidence to support evolution.....

Now on that note, i read in a book recently disputing evolution. Their premise was that if the human body is made up of 50 - 75 trillion cells, and life has only been around on earth for 2 billion years, how could we evolve up from a single celled organism? If every year a cell evolved, we'd still only have 2 billion cells....something to ponder....and if evolution happened 1 cell per year, we'd be able to see it in our everyday lives........
 
To start off with, this is a story that has been around for many years, with not only Einstein as the author, but many other people as well (depending on the context in which it is told). Google it.

Just because something is posted on the internet does not make it true.

Now that the credibility of the author is out the window...
 
a 1 player said:
Just because something is posted on the internet does not make it true.

Now that the credibility of the author is out the window...


1% = 59?
Shakespeares = 60?

I find myself lacking faith.
 
tboy said:
while many would wish it to be true, i bet with a little investigation snopes would prove it to be false......einstein is way too smart to say that since no one has actually observed evolution in progress, it has to be taken on faith. there are thousands upon thousands of pieces of scientific evidence to support evolution.....

Now on that note, i read in a book recently disputing evolution. Their premise was that if the human body is made up of 50 - 75 trillion cells, and life has only been around on earth for 2 billion years, how could we evolve up from a single celled organism? If every year a cell evolved, we'd still only have 2 billion cells....something to ponder....and if evolution happened 1 cell per year, we'd be able to see it in our everyday lives........

I am really not a believer but I also question evolution. If we believe everything that is said about evolution, if the human race is still around in lets say 5000 years, what will the human race look like?
 
Madman said:
I am really not a believer but I also question evolution. If we believe everything that is said about evolution, if the human race is still around in lets say 5000 years, what will the human race look like?

with the way obesity is becoming a national health issue, we'll probably end up like the people in the movie wall-e.....fat overweight gobs of goo unable to even standup on our own......

btw, i don't think that will be a problem as i don't believe we'll be around in 5000 years.....even though we know we're fucking up our planet, and taking steps to lessen the impact, we're still polluting it at an enormous rate.........
 
Jesus said:
Its a nice story, one that I have seen floating around the web with various names attached to the end of this and I believe to be nothing more than a nice story. The point the student makes about evolution is moot.

Einstein himself most definitely did not believe in a personal God as is being portrayed in the blatant piece of misinforming Christian propaganda above - as is demonstrated below:

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

- Albert Einstein, letter to an atheist (1954)

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere.... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

- Albert Einstein, "Religion and Science,"

I've taught you well :biggrin:
 
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