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A professor engages a student in a debate about God and faith. The professor questions how God can be good if he allows suffering. The student is initially unable to answer. The professor then argues that science says God does not exist since he cannot be empirically proven. However, the student turns the argument around by pointing out that many concepts like cold and darkness cannot be proven empirically either. He argues the professor's premise of duality is flawed. The student concludes that faith is what links man to God, as it cannot be proven empirically.

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Take Time To Read

A professor engages a student in a debate about God and faith. The professor questions how God can be good if he allows suffering. The student is initially unable to answer. The professor then argues that science says God does not exist since he cannot be empirically proven. However, the student turns the argument around by pointing out that many concepts like cold and darkness cannot be proven empirically either. He argues the professor's premise of duality is flawed. The student concludes that faith is what links man to God, as it cannot be proven empirically.

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TAKE TIME TO READ. It's worth it.

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

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?

Student : Absolutely, sir.

Professor : Is GOD good ?

Student : Sure.

Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?

Student : Yes.

Professor: 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 was silent.)

Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD
good?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Is satan good ?

Student : No.

Professor: Where does satan come from ?

Student : From … GOD …

Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything.


Correct?

Student : Yes.
Professor: So who created evil ?

(Student did not answer.)

Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these


terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, who created them ?

(Student had no answer.)

Professor: 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.

Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?

Student : No , sir.

Professor: 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.

Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?

Student : Yes.

Professor : 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.

Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.

Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Professor: Yes.

Student : And is there such a thing as cold?

Professor: Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isn’t.

(The lecture theatre became 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 was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)

Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as


darkness?

Professor: 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 is, were you would be able to make darkness
darker, wouldn’t you?

Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?

Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Professor: 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?

Professor: 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 shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the
argument was 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 was in uproar.)

Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s
brain?

(The class broke 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 was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face
unfathomable.)

Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.

Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is
all that keeps things alive and moving.

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