[Armageddon]

An Atheist Professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the
problem science has with God, The Almighty.

He as ks 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 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, or smelled 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.

Pr! of: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol,
cience 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 man 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, then 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 own opinion, sir? Are you not a preacher rather than a scientist?

(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 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 & God is FAITH.
That is all that keeps things moving & alive.


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That young man was ALBERT EINSTEIN.......

[Grimnir]

This story is not true, in case anyone had any doubts.

[dhfenton]

You ar espreading urban legends that happen to fit your world view. Einstein was added to this legend as it grew.


Here's a link concerning this very story:

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/e/einstein-god.htm

[Wildwell]

Student : That is it, sir.... The link between man & God is FAITH.


The trouble is there are a lot of different faiths...

Right I'm off to draw a cartoon

[J-Rod]

heh.

http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp

[gego]

Another myth in your little story is where you stated no one has observed evolution.

Tell that to a dog breeder. Go find some pictures of pigs from farm books back in the 1920's and compare them to pigs today and tell me you have not observed evolution. If bacteriologists have not seen evolution then why do antibiotics not work on them like they formerly did? If evolution does not exist then you do not need to worry about the bird flu virus evolving so that it can be transmitted human to human.

[Leanan]

Um...how is this a current event related to peak oil or energy?

If you're gonna post silly chain-letter spam, why not the "let's boycott the gas stations" one.

[Wildwell]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gego', 'A')nother myth in your little story is where you stated no one has observed evolution.

Tell that to a dog breeder. Go find some pictures of pigs from farm books back in the 1920's and compare them to pigs today and tell me you have not observed evolution. If bacteriologists have not seen evolution then why do antibiotics not work on them like they formerly did? If evolution does not exist then you do not need to worry about the bird flu virus evolving so that it can be transmitted human to human.

[anthem]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gego', '
')Tell that to a dog breeder. Go find some pictures of pigs from farm books back in the 1920's and compare them to pigs today and tell me you have not observed evolution. If bacteriologists have not seen evolution then why do antibiotics not work on them like they formerly did? If evolution does not exist then you do not need to worry about the bird flu virus evolving so that it can be transmitted human to human.

[smallpoxgirl]

I have absolutely seen evolution happen. You test a bacteria. It is sensitive to a certain antibiotic. You treat the patient with the antibiotic for say 2wks. She's still not feeling well so you retest. Well, golly, how'd that happen. All of a sudden the bacteria are resistant. Where'd they come from? The resistant disease fairy? No they EVOLVED!

[Leanan]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')volution presupposes the addition of new genetic material.

[anthem]

Evolution, as the theory stands (wobbles?) today, requires that new genetic material be introduced through random mutations. How do you, Leanan, propose we go from one species, say a lower primate, to another, say a human, without the addition of new genetic material? Force of will? I don't want to be a human anymore so I'll just pretend to be a cheetah and I'll evolve? No. I need some other genetic material (as an embryo), and not only that, if I want my new species to survive beyond me, I'd better mutate my spermatocytes to generate this new genetic material and find me a nice lady who's had the same "fortunate" mutation in her oocytes.

Random mutations do occur, and do occur in the sperm and egg of higher animals, but are universally bad. In the history of evolutionary theory, even with hundreds and thousands of scientists working with millions upon millions of little fruit flies and other little creatures with short reproductive cycles, there has been no demonstration of evolution.

[anthem]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '[')smilie=bs.gif]

I have absolutely seen evolution happen. You test a bacteria. It is sensitive to a certain antibiotic. You treat the patient with the antibiotic for say 2wks. She's still not feeling well so you retest. Well, golly, how'd that happen. All of a sudden the bacteria are resistant. Where'd they come from? The resistant disease fairy? No they EVOLVED!

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('anthem', 'R')andom mutations do occur, and do occur in the sperm and egg of higher animals, but are universally bad.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('anthem', 'T')he resistant ones, though, were there from the beginning.

[anthem]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '
') Somewhere along the line humans started herding other animals, so they had access to milk even into adulthood when no normal mammal would.

[anthem]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '
')In some cases they are. In some cases they aren't. Some bacteria can pick up a plasmid of DNA that was produced by an entirely different species of bacteria and use it to start making something that makes them immune to antibiotics. In most instances a few individuals start off being weakly immune and are once stimulated become more strongly immune.

[Armageddon]

animals or species evolving from one to another would leave millions of fossils showing this gradual change. But, scientists and archeologists are baffled at the deeper they dig, the more bare the earth becomes. They are starting to realize that man just appeared . Thats why mans beginning appears at a certain level of earth.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('anthem', 'S')o you're trying to tell us that people began drinking milk before they had lactose tolerance? Whatever for? They enjoyed indigestion?

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('anthem', 't')here has been no demonstration of evolution.