An atheist professor & his student

Discussion in 'General Motoring' started by algagaa, Feb 4, 2008.

  1. algagaa

    algagaa Guest

    An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem
    science has with God, The Almighty.
    He asks one of his new Muslim 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?
    (Student is silent.)
    Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella
    (Fellah - A peasant in an Arabic-speaking country, esp. in Egypt ). 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, 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
    say 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 has never seen, much
    less fully under stood 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 endeavor,
    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 & god is FAITH.
    That is all that keeps things moving & alive.
     
    algagaa, Feb 4, 2008
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  2. algagaa

    dgk Guest


    What shit. A brain can be measured. It can be seen and weighed after
    death and can be seen if there is an accident that cracks the skull.
    Fossils show evolution. Evolution does not say that man evolved from
    monkeys. Man and monkeys evolved from a common primate ancestor.

    Science is never on faith. Science is about things that can be tested.

    Nothing quite like writing both sides of the conversation.

    In the case of Honda, car evolved from motorcycle.
     
    dgk, Feb 5, 2008
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  3. algagaa

    motsco_ Guest

    --------------------------

    Car came from horse and carriage.

    Motorcycle came from from bicycle.

    Some intermediate specimens exist, but all of the intelligent designers
    have since died.

    'Curly'
     
    motsco_, Feb 5, 2008
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  4. algagaa

    dgk Guest

    The missing link: The Tricycle.
     
    dgk, Feb 6, 2008
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