GOD & SCIENCE (A story)

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An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, the Almighty. He asks one of his new students (You will never guess who it is) to stand and……

Prof: So you believe in God?
Students: Absolutely, sir.
Prof: Is God good?
Students: Sure.
Prof: Is God all-powerful?
Students: 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? Hmmmm?

(Students are silent)

Prof: You can’t answer, can you? Let’s start again, young fella. Is God good?
Students: Yes
Prof: Is Satan good?
Students: 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?
Students: Yes
Prof: So who created evil?

(Students does not 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?
Students: No, sir.
Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?
Students: No, sir.
Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, and smelled your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of
God for that matter?
Students: No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?
Students: Yes.
Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says
your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Students: Nothing. I only have me 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:

Student: No sir. There isn’t

(The lecture 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. 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 d 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 d 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 d 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 is 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 d 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 d 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 d absence of it. Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach
your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Prof: If you are referring to d 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 d
argument is going.)

Student: Since no one has ever observed d process of evolution at
work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavour, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?

(The class is in uproar.)

Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard d Professor’s brain, felt it, touched it or smelled 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 and god is faith. That is all that keeps things moving and alive.

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
Hebrews 11:1

Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.
1 Peter 1:21

We live by faith, not by sight.
2 Corinthians 5:7

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