An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class
on the
problem
science has with God. He asks one of his new students
to stand
and.....

*Professor*: You are a Muslim, aren't you, son?

*Student* : Yes, sir.

*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?

(The 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?

(The 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?

(The Student has no answer.)
*
Prof:* Tell me, son. Do you believe in God?

*Student*: Yes Sir, I do.

*Prof:* Science says you have 5 senses you use to
identify and observe
the world around you. Have you ever seen God?

*Student:* No, sir.

*Prof: *Tell us if you have ever heard your God?

*Student:* Yes , 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, tell me, 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 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?

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