Who could possibly believe this story?

Question

You've probably seen it before. Not only is it slander, but it shows reasoning highly insulting of a mind like Einstein's. Any idea who originated this fraud?

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The University professor challenged his students with this question"Did God create everything that exists?"A student bravely replied, "Yes he did!"God created everything?" The professor asked,Yes sir", the student replied:The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil, since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are, then God is evil."The student became quiet before such an answer. The professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a
question professor?"Of course", replied the professor:The student stood up and asked, "Professor does cold exist?"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?" The students snickered at the young man's question:The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. 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 (-460? F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat."The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"The professor responded, "Of course it does."

The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a
term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."
Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?"Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have already said. We see it everyday. 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 is 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 young man's name -- Albert Einstein (ostensibly)

Come on now... Isn't this petty and silly?

Cathy L - I cut and paste it from someone else...

Answer 1

I have heard this one, but you left out the very end.

The professor stands up and demands to know why there were only one set of footprints in the sand. And Einstein tells him that that is when he carried him.

Answer 2

Who could possibly believe this story? Word for word, the gullible that believe everything that lands in their inbox.
You've probably seen it before. Not only is it slander, but it shows reasoning highly insulting of a mind like Einstein's. The reasoning is very logical, with the possible exception of evil being the absence of God's love. That last part is as reasonable as the professor's statement that because God created evil God is evil. Evil is a side product of free will, one can not make a choice if there is only one option. Personal beliefs are not necessarily subject to reason though, that's why faith is needed. Insults can be a matter opinion. If I hate you and you call me mean, I'll take it as a compliment, even if you mean it as an insult. A lot of people use certain language constantly with little to no meaning behind it while those same words are highly insulting to some people.
Any idea who originated this fraud? It most likely happened by someone editing the story in a forwarded email. Maybe there was a number of stories or some quotes with it and Einstein was the originator of one of them, but in the copying and pasting, it got a little mangled. Then a later recipient of the email decided that it meant to say the student was Einstein.

Answer 3

God is not evil, and that was a very intellect analogy wether Einstein created it or not. Like this young man, said. "Evil is simply the absents of God." In other words, if that was too "complicated" for you to understand, when God is not here evil is. or when light isn't here, darkness is.

Answer 4

That's an urban myth.
There is NO evidence that Einstein ever said anything of the sort. In fact if he would have done anything, he would have written it and handed it in.
And no such document has ever been found.
It's just another example of pious fraud, christians indulge in that kind of falsehood on a daily basis...

Answer 5

Yeah I can believe it, even though it is almost certainly allegorical... Einstein was not an Atheist, more like a "therapeutic Deist"... he definitely believed in a superior (not necessarily supreme) being. Here are some of his quotes regarding religion:

http://www.childrenofmillennium.org/philosophy/pages/articles/einstein.htm

Answer 6

yes. it reminds me of a chick tract (Cartoons for young impressionable children and teenagers showing christians outsmarting others in horriby scripted plots)

its basiclaly a story that shows christians gaining leverage over non christians....in reality its usually the opposite. but since they cant get any real life victories they choose to make their own.

ive always been amused how christians like to claim victory over things. television shows, cartoons, wars...they seem to simply declare war on something...wait a few seconds....then declare themself victorious, throwing their hand up in the air as if they attained some unimagineable goal. i see it lal the tim when im flipping through the tv and come upon some religious channel.

victory in christ
victory in grace
victory over satan
victory over evil
victory over terrorism

it seems they simply enjoy winning over things that...dont seem to fight back...look at the MISSION ACCOMPLISHED thing that the president did. he was just declaring victory....over....something...im not sure what.

christian will always pretend to be victorious. even when theyre not. for people who are so massively deluded im really not surprised.

Answer 7

Back in Highschool, in the first weeks of class in every year, the teachers always made us put little name tags on our tables, so that they could learn out names.

On those name tags, in french class i named myself Chopin (i know, he's Polish, but that made the teachers more angry...), in german class i was Franz Beckenbauer, in english class John Lennon. It might very well be true that in science class i named myself Albert Einstein.

Answer 8

God created us and had angels, satan was an angel who greed took over him, satan was cast out, and now since peoples eyes were opened to sin we live in this curse, until we pay our wages for it through death, and believe Christ as our saviour, be born again and be raised into eternal life, in the way God always wanted it.

Answer 9

For God's sake - why did you have to go on for so long to say what you were trying to say in the first line. Faith is good as distinct from evil. You did not have to continue with all the rest of the cra*p.....................

Answer 10

Its just one of those scam/spam stories that go around through emails. hahahaaaaaaa