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.
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?
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, 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 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: 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.
By the way, that student
was EINSTEIN.
