Aethists/Scientists, this will get you thinking?

Question

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 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 is silent.)

Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, Is God good

Student: Yes.

Prof: Is Satan good?
Student: No.

Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From...God...

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?
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?


Student has no 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?


Student has no answer.


Prof: 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.

Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?
Student: No, sir.

Prof: 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.

Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.

Prof: 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.

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?


(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize
where the argument is 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 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 . That is all that keeps things moving & alive.



This student was none other than Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, the Ex-President of India .

Answer 1

I like that. I'm starring this.

Answer 2

Ho Hum
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 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 is silent.)

Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, Is God good

Student: Yes.

Prof: Is Satan good?
Student: No.

Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From...God...

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?
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?

Answer 3

Well this is just stupid. In the more general sense of the word, darkness is a descriptive word for times when a humans visual perception struggles. Every scientist understands that. Coldness doesn't exist? Its descriptive aswell. Have you ever heard of the Kelvin Scale? It doesn't have negative values, only positive, measuring heat. Come on read some books son. As for evolution, it has evidence you idiot. You can see natural selection occuring any time an animal dies you fool.

Answer 4

This is an old, FICTIONAL story. It's an urban legend that has been attributed to many different people, and Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam is just the "student du jour". (Most commonly, it's Einstein) This story was made up by a believer to make other believers "Oooo" and "Ahhhh" and think that some great argument for faith was won.
The only people who are "awe struck" by the "wisdom" of the students responses are believers. There's not an atheist in the world who would be struck silent by anything he said there. They're easily refutable arguments.

Answer 5

Some how I missed the question but i did read somewhere about God or Jesus or some of that bunch taking a little dab of regular tap water and turning it in to enough wine for every body at a wedding reception to finish getting drunk on. Student and Professor has no answer

Answer 6

Evolution, yes, I believe everything does evolve over time to adapt, but if we came from monkeys, then why are they still here?
God is everywhere and is everything, so in reality you could say you have seen God. Did he not make us in his likeness? Did he not make everything that is around us? So yes to that too, we ALL see God everyday.
Sickness, Immorality, Hatred, Ugliness. This all ties in to "the secret", which is actually in the Bible, Ask and it is given, Matthew 7:7,8. Being how he wants you to be, letting the well being flow through you can prevent all of this. When you aren't, you are letting(attracting) all of those things into your life. So it's no one elses fault but your own. Don't blame God for your laziness.

Answer 7

Rhetorical semantics. If the student had bashed the professors head in with a rock, he would have discovered his brain. Everyone in the class at that time would have known without a doubt that the professor had a brain. The proof would have been available with a simple eeg reading. Yet no eeg reading, or indeed, ANY kind of reading will reveal the presence of ANY god. The burden of proof is still on the religious, with their mind virus called faith.

Answer 8

Interesting, and a very good explanation of the nature of duality, but an inherently contradictory set of premises is flawed regardless of physical perception. 2 +2 = 5 does not need empirical science to be disproven.
It's still a brilliant peice of writing though.

Answer 9

So what's your point? Because science can't prove some things, we should just drop all the proof we do have (by the way, evolution HAS been proven to be ongoing, and is happening as we speak, slowly but urely), and believe? Sorry, but believing something simply because there is no proof against it is a RELIGIOUS thing.

And it's "atheists." Did your copy and paste site teach you that?

Answer 10

Stopped reading it as soon as the so called Professor said there is cold. Cold is the absence of heat and, if the Prof. didn't know that I would not hold his views in high regard.

Answer 11

So if we don't look at the universe in duality, and there is only god and the absence of god ... how can god be omnipresent? If god exists everywhere, how can death, disease, famine, etc only occur in his absence?

"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."

No professor would ever say this, as the natural evolutionary process does not say that man evolved from a monkey.

A person's brain, and their brain wave activity can measured using scientific means. A CT scan can used to show a person's brain without removing it from their skull. An EEG can be used to measure the activity of the person's brain.

And we can not sit and watch evolution happen. By its very nature, it happens over thousands, hundreds of thousands, and millions of years. Although we can not watch the process of evolution, we can find clues and put together the pieces, like a puzzle. Which is more than anyone can do for creationism.