The science professor begins his school year with a lecture to the students, “Let me explain the problem science has with religion.” He then asks one of his new students
“Ar you a Christian?”
“Yes sir,” the student says.
“So you believe in God?”
“Yes.”
“Is God good?”
“Yes.”
“Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?”
“Yes.”
“Do you believe in Evil”
“Yes.”
“Let’s say there’s a sick person over here and you can cure him. You can do it. Would you help him? Would you try?”
“Yes.”
"You’d help a sick and maimed person if you could. But God doesn’t. My brother was a Christian who died of cancer, even though he prayed to Jesus to heal him. How is this Jesus good? "
“Is God good?”
“yes,” the student says.
“Is Satan good?”
“No.”
“Then where does Satan come from?”
“From God”
“God made Satan?”
“Yes.”
“Evil’s everywhere. And God did make everything, correct?”
“Yes.”
“So who created evil?” “If God created everything, then God created evil, since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are, then God is evil. Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? Do they exist in this world?”
“Yes.”
Prof “Science says you have five senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Have you ever seen Jesus?”
"No "
“Have you heard Jesus?”
“No”
“Have you felt Jesus, tasted Jesus or smelt Jesus? Have you ever had any sensory perception of Jesus Christ, or God for that matter?”
“No,”
“Yet you believe in him?”
“Yes.”
"According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says God doesn’t exist. And that is the problem science has with God. There is no evidence, "
Student, “Professor, is there such thing as heat?”
“Yes, There’s heat.”
“And is there such a thing as cold?”
“Yes, son, there’s cold too.”
“No sir, there isn’t.”
Student. “You can have heat, even more heat, super-heat, mega-heat, unlimited heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat, but we don’t have anything called ‘cold’. We can hit up to 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold; otherwise we would be able to go colder than the lowest -458 degrees.”
“Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero is the total absence of heat. Cold is a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat we can measure in thermal units because heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.”
“What about darkness, professor. Is there such a thing as darkness?”
“Yes,” the professor replies without hesitation. “What is night if it isn’t darkness?”
“You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something; it 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? That’s the meaning we use to define the word.”
“In reality, darkness isn’t. If it were, you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?”
Your philosophical premise is flawed to start with, and so your conclusion must also be flawed."
“You are working on the premise of duality,” the student explains. “You argue that there is life and then there’s death; a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. 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.”
“Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?”
"If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, "
“Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?”
“No”
“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 now teaching your opinion, sir? Are you now not a scientist, but a preacher?”
The student asked, “Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the professor’s brain?Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor’s brain, felt the professor’s brain, touched or smelt the professor’s brain? 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.”
“If science says you have no brain, how can we trust your lectures, sir?”
“Now, you accept that there is faith, and, in fact, faith exists with life,” the student continues. “Now, sir, is there such a thing as evil?”
The professor responds, “We see it everyday. It is in the daily example of man’s inhumanity to man It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil.”
The student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God’s love present in his heart. It’s like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. - Hebrews 11:1
But I think that the student’s answer shouldn’t have been yes.
