What do you guys think of this?

Question

A professor of a university challenged his students with this
question.
"Did God create everything that exists?" A student answered
bravely, "Yes,
he did".
The professor then asked, "If God created everything, then he
created evil.
Since evil exists (as noticed by our own actions), so God is evil.

The student couldn't respond to that statement causing the professor
to
conclude that he had "proved" that "belief in
God" was a fairy tale, and
therefore worthless.

Another student raised his hand and asked the professor, "May I
pose a
question? ", "Of course" answered the professor.

The young student stood up and asked : "Professor does Cold
exists?".
The professor answered, "What kind of question is that? Of
course the cold
exists... haven't you ever been cold?"

The young student answered, "In fact sir, Cold does not exist.
According to
the laws of Physics, what we consider cold , in fact is the absence of
heat.
Anything is able to be studied as long as it transmits energy (heat).
Absolute Zero is the total absence of heat, but cold does not exist.
What
we have done is create a term to describe how we feel if
we don't have body heat or we are not hot."

"And, does Dark exist?", he continued.

The professor answered "Of course". This time the student
responded,
"Again you're wrong, Sir. Darkness does not exist either.
Darkness is in
fact simply the absence of light. Light can be studied, darkness
cannot.
Darkness cannot be broken down. A simple ray of light tears the
darkness
and illuminates the surface where the light beam finishes. Dark is a
term
that we humans have created to describe what happens when there's
lack of
light."

Finally, the student asked the professor, "Sir, does evil
exist?" The
professor replied, "Of course it exists, as I mentioned at the
beginning,
we see violations, crimes and violence anywhere in the world, and
those
things are evil."

The student responded, "Sir, Evil does not exist. Just as in
the previous
cases, Evil is a term which man has created to describe the result
of the
absence of God's presence in the hearts of man. After this, the
professor
bowed down his head, and didn't answer back.

The young man's name was ALBERT EINSTEIN.

okay, who knows who said it? But let's focus on not who said it but on what the person said.

Answer 1

wow! i was really interested when i heard this and i totally agree with A.I. god created everything but does it mean he created satan. in a way yes since he created all the angels. and lucifer was an angel. but like humans the angels had freedom. so it was lucifers choice to create evil and become the devil. and so now we know that evil can only be evil if god is not in the picture

Answer 2

That is a really cool way of looking at things, where ever it came from. But, i think they should have added this to the bottom...

But the student wasn't finished, he cleared his throat, and said "Sir, does God exist?"

The professor shook his head, obviously disappointed with his students idiocy,
"Yes, of course god exists it's the point of the discussion, God created Everything!"

The student straightening out his back a little more at this, spoke his final rebuttal,
"Sir, excuse me but, we are all human, and 4,000 years ago Humans would have been explaining lightning as the gods getting angry and in their age throwing down an arrow of deadly light, nowadays we know that it's just the static charge created by large heavy clouds.
So couldn't we say that God is the name humans created for a lack of vital information."

The professor struck dumb remains silent as the lecture hall fills with cheers and applauding.

Finis

just a suggestion..

Answer 3

The same man that got his career stuck because he couldn't coop with his fact that his god does roll dice.

Btw, I don't even know if this is true, or what the general knowledge of those days was, but it sounds pretty stupid for a professor to answer these questions that way.

To the topic then:
There is no god, and there is no evil. There is pain, and the feeling of satisfaction. What's satisfactory for one, is not always good, or may even be painful for another. There's unfairness (when you endure uncomfort or pain when you think there's nothing you did to deserve it), natural disasters, you name it.
It's more dependent on the environment you live in, than the presence or absence of some sort of god.
I think you can get closest if you say that evil is the absence of good in general and a good and stable environment to develop your own personality and/or when someone is enslaved into a system he has no way to influence or control (politics, religion, earthquakes, power freaks, etc.).

Answer 4

I've seen this, but then Albert Einstein admits that he does not believe in a Personal God. But then, that doesn't PROVE the existence of any God... it proves only that his reasoning is based on the idea that a God does exist... Einstein's reasoning. I could use this same argument to prove a Goddess exists in this sense. It doesn't Prove anything outside of proving Einstein did, indeed, believe in a Creator. And considering he was Jewish, do you think he was doing this to prove the Christian perception? Or a Jewish one? I think he was merely showing the professor that the prof's argument that there was no God was baseless.... based on the argument the prof was giving to begin with. It's a logical argument he presented, but still is not Proof of a God.

Answer 5

I've heard the story before but this is the first time I've ever heard it attributed to Albert Einstein. I don't believe that he actually said this because while he did believe in something like a god, he was not particularly religious.

Answer 6

I have an absence of words which I will call ignorance because I see a lack of wisdom, see the universal truth? Genius!

Answer 7

Very nice."God is subtle but he is not malicious"he said about an exact engineered universe."The ancient Jehovah is still abroad.Alas,he slays the innocent along with the guilty,whom he strikes so fearsomely blind that they can feel no sense of guilt.....Einstein about war.Seems like he believed in God,just couldn't understand the human interpretation of organized religion.He also did pretty well in school ,once he went to Polytechnic Academy in Zurich.Very nice little story.

Answer 8

There is no evil in God, but it most definitely exists. I think Einstein knew very well the existence of evil, after all, he narrowly escaped The Devils Reich.

Answer 9

....so old...
Anyway, is evil the lack of good, or, as more likely, is good the lack of evil? Think of it in terms of color: white is the lack of any color, and black is the presence of all colors. Good is the lack of sin, evil is the presence of sin. Sin is the quality we measure, it is not a lack, as far as we can prove according to the highly dichotomic Biblical terminology.

Answer 10

Haha, sorry, Albert Einstein was an Atheist. While that is a touching story, get your facts straight before saying anything.