Excellent Conversation

|An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem
|science has with God, The Almighty.
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|He asks one of his new students to stand and.....
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|Prof: So you believe in God?
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|Student: Absolutely, sir.
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|Prof: Is God good?
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|Student: Sure.
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|Prof: Is God all-powerful?
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|Student: Yes.
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|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?
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|(Student is silent.)
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|Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella. Is God
|good?
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|Student: Yes.
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|Prof: Is Satan good?
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|Student: No.
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|Prof: Where does Satan come from?
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|Student: From...God...
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|Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
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|Student: Yes.
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|Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything.
|Correct?
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|Student: Yes.
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|Prof: So who created evil?
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|(Student does not answer.)
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|Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these
|terrible things exist in the world, don't they?
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|Student: Yes, sir.
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|Prof: So, who created them?
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|(Student has no answer.)
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|Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe
|the world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever
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|seen God?
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|Student: No, sir.
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|Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?
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|Student: No, sir.
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|Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your
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|God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?
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|Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
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|Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?
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|Student: Yes.
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|Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science
|says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
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|Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.
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|Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.
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|Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
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|Prof: Yes.
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|Student: And is there such a thing as cold?
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|Prof: Yes.
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|Student: No sir. There isn't.
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|(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)
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|Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even
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|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.
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|(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)
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|Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as
|darkness?
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|Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?
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|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?
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|Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?
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|Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
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|Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?
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|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.
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|Now tell me, Professor.Do you teach your students that they evolved
|from a monkey?
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|Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of
|course, I do.
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|Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
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|(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where
|the argument is going.)
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|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.)
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|Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's
|brain?
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|(The class breaks out into laughter.)
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|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.
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|With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
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|(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face
|unfathomable.)
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|Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.
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|Student: That is it sir... The link between man & god is FAITH. That is
|all that keeps things moving & alive.