Atheistic Faith At Work
Author Unknown
An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on
the problem science has with God.
Asking one of his new students to stand, he says, "You are
a Christian, aren't you, son?
"Yes, sir," the young student replies respectfully.
"So you believe in God?" the professor asks accusingly.
"Absolutely, sir," came his quick reply.
"Is God good?"
"Of course," came the confident reply.
"Is God all-powerful?"
"Yes."
The professor continues by saying, "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 do
anything for my brother. How is this God good then?"
The student is silent.
"So, you can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young
fella. Is God good?"
"Yes."
The professor smiles and continues. "Well, then, is Satan
good?"
"No."
"Where does Satan come from?"
"From God."
"That's right," the professor agrees. "Tell me son, is
there evil in this world?"
"Yes," the student replied.
"So, evil is everywhere, isn't it? God made everything. Is
this your view?"
"Yes, sir."
"So who created evil then?"
The student remains silent.
"Do we not have sickness, immorality, hunger, murder, war,
genocide, hatred, and ugliness of all kinds in the world today?
All these terrible things exist. Don't they?"
"Of course," sir, the student answers.
"So, who created them?"
The student again chooses silence.
Continuing, the professor says, "Science says you have 5
senses you use to identify and observe the world around you.
Tell me, son, have you ever seen God?"
"No, sir," comes the student's firm answer.
"Tell us, young man, have you ever heard your God?"
"No, sir."
"Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your
God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God, at all,
for that matter?"
"No, sir, I'm afraid I haven't."
"Yet you still believe in Him?"
Yes, I most certainly do," the student said
enthusiastically.
"According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol,
science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say to that?"
"Nothing," came the student's quick answer, "I only have my
faith."
"Yes, faith. That is the problem science has," the
professor concluded.
The student remained stolidly standing during the sounds of
fellow students attempting to stifle their laughter. After a
moment of silence, the student says, "Professor, is there such a
thing as heat?"
"Yes."
"Is there such a thing as cold?" the student asks.
"Yes, of course there is," the professor replies.
"No sir. There isn't."
The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this
unanticipated turn of events.
"Sir," the student continues, "you can have lots of heat
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 total silence in the lecture theatre.
Still the student continues. "What about darkness,
professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?"
"Certainly," the professor announces confidently. "What is
night if there isn't darkness?"
"Excuse me, sir," the student says respectfully, "but you
are wrong again. Darkness is the absence of something. You can
have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light, but
if you have no light constantly or perpetually, you have nothing
and that is called darkness. Isn't that correct, professor? In
reality, darkness isn't. If it were, you would be able to make
darkness darker, wouldn't you?"
"So, what is the point you are making, young man?"
"Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed."
"Flawed? Can you explain how?"
"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, that is,
something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a
thought. It uses electricity, chemical interaction, and
magnetism, but has never been seen, much less fully understood by
any of the greatest scientists in the world.
Furthermore," the student continues, "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?"
"If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process,
yes, of course, I do."
"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.
"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 is suddenly cacophonous.
"Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the
professor's brain?" The still standing student asks; swinging
his arm in an arc to encompass the entire room.
The class is now openly laughing.
"Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor's
brain, felt it, touched or smelt it?" The laughter subsides and
the student pauses to hear an answer. "There is none and thus 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 dead silent. The professor stares at the
student, his face unfathomable. After a moments thought, the
professor says, "I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son."
"Thank you, sir, for being honest. The link between man and
God is FAITH and without faith, it is impossible to please God.
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