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Science vs. Unkown
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 to stand and.....
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 fellow. 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 its 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? 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..................
8 comments
ushagda ferasete bax:) halaldi.. Agsaqqal emi hegigeten ibretamiz hekayedir..Allah imanimizi eksik elemsin Amin.
18. 02. 07 @ 02:31
Comment from: Mysterious [Visitor]
Smart boy, dogurdanda halaldir sene :)
Allah hemishe hamimizin inamini, imanini mohkem elesin...heqiqetende Inam yashadir insani...Agsaqqal_emi cox gozel post idi,xoshuma geldi hemisheki kimi, chox sag olun:)
18. 02. 07 @ 04:45
Comment from: bakinka_v_NY [Visitor]
Potryasayushiy otvet!Duzu mene chox maraqli gelirdi ki student ne cavab verecek.Chunki bu suali bezi ateistler her birimize,shexsen mene de,verirler...Otvechaem,obyasnyaem po raznomu.No otnine ya otvechu imenno tak.
18. 02. 07 @ 10:08
Comment from: Most Known Unknown [Visitor]
ferasetli ushax olub deyesen:) Oxuya oxuya, professorun suallarina sessiz qalanda ele srazi bildim ki, nese fikirleshir, qontra-ataqa'ya kechecek:)
Agsaqqal: axir vaxtlar ozuvu vermisen Felsefe elmine deyesen, xeyirdimi? :)
19. 02. 07 @ 19:43
Comment from: Sabishka [Visitor]
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Tebii ki, EVLENMEK LAZIMDIR! Eger gyozel xaniminiz olsa, shad olacaqsiniz. Yox pisi dushse, onda FILOSOF OLACAQSINIZ
Sokrat (!!!!!!!!!)
MKU , bunun axirinda nida isharelerini gorende men de ele fikirleshmishdim :PAma inanmiram ele ola:DAgsaqqal emide bu bir hevesdi filosoflug hehehe:))
21. 02. 07 @ 01:03
Comment from: Trepsixore [Visitor]
halal olsun
Elave: Allah yegane varligdir ki ona mehebbetimizin evezini teleb etmirik...Ancaq o bizi hemishe layig oldugumuzdan daha cox giymetlendirir...
21. 02. 07 @ 17:58
Comment from: sensitive [Visitor]
Bunun rus dilinde olan variantini oxumushdum, ingilis dilinde de maraqlidir. Teshekkurler Agsaqqal emi.
24. 02. 07 @ 14:38