An atheist (non believer in GOD) professor of
Philosophy speaks to his Class on the problem
science has with a manifestation of God. He asks
one of his new students to stand and.....
Prof: You are a devotee of the concept of a Manifestation of God, aren't you, son?
Student: Yes, sir.
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 the Manifestation to heal him. Most of
us would attempt to help others who are ill. But He
didn't. How is this Manifestation of God good
then? Hmm?
(The student is silent.)
Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again,
young fella. Is God good?
Student: Yes.
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?
(The 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?
(The student has no answer.)
Prof: Tell me, son. Do you believe in the
Manifestation of God?
Student: Yes, professor, I do.
Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to
identify and observe the world around you. Have
you ever seen this manifestation of God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your
Manifestation of God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Have you ever felt your Manifestation of God,
tasted your
Manifestation of God, smelt your Manifestation of God? Have you ever had any sensory perception
of the manifestation of God or 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
Manifestation of 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?
Prof: No.
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.
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I hate reading these simplistic articles about atheism. They always involve some unnamed atheist professor and an unnamed student who believes. We never hear what he believes, but we all know he's a Christian, don't we? Then they have sort of pseudo Socratic talk that backfires on the professor, while the class all agrees with and approves of the student. It's tiresome and fake.
I mean, if we cut open the professors head, we could all see his brain, it would make the professor correct, but he could be killed as well. And his darkness and light argument is pure sophistry, meant to dazzle those who don't know any better.
It's best to see these for what they are and ignore them.