Professor and Student's Story about God and Science

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his

class on the problem science has with God, The

Almighty.

He asks one of his new Christian students to

stand and.....

Professor: You are a Christian, aren't you, son?

Student : Yes, sir.

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, young fella. 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: 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 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 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. 

Note: I also got this interesting story somewhere and I thought this will help you understand the undiscovered links between God and science.