Do you have a brain?

[Fez]

I have read this before, but I thought it was good, and time to share again...

Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?

Student : Absolutely, sir.

Professor : Is GOD good ?

Student : Sure.

Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?

Student : Yes.

Professor: 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 was silent.)

Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Is satan good ?

Student : No.

Professor: Where does satan come from ?

Student : From … GOD …

Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?

Student : Yes.

Professor: So who created evil ?

(Student did not answer.)

Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, who created them ?

(Student had no answer.)

Professor: 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.

Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?

Student : No , sir.

Professor: 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.

Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?

Student : Yes.

Professor : 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.

Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.

Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Professor: Yes.

Student : And is there such a thing as cold?

Professor: Yes.

Student : No, sir. There isn’t.

(The lecture theater became 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 was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)

Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Professor: 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 its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, well you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?

Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?

Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Professor: 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?

Professor: 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 shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was 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 was in uproar.)

Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?

(The class broke 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 was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)

Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.

Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.

[BlessedByTheBest]

haha! silly professor. great story!

amen!

[He giveth more grace]

That student and Richard Dawkins (renown Atheist) should have a conversation.

[hippias]

It is truly inspiring how this nutty professor loses the argument in this made up dialogue. No doubt: if all people would inform themselves about evolution by reading imagined dialogues instead of biology textbooks, its acceptance would drop considerably.

[JTC]

I hope this isn't going off topic too much, because I want to comment on this. The professor said:

"Professor: 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?"

I'm also commenting on this because we just lost a 47 year old woman to cancer in my family.

The reason God is still good, even if a baby died, is because the hope and promise of Christianity is not for this life. And I think the younger you are, the harder it is to grasp this.

I believe souls get sent to Earth for several reasons. One is to suffer in certain ways. (we don't like that one) Others are to do the good works of God. Usually we like that. I ask God almost daily that I may be 1 of the people who does His will on Earth as the angels do in Heaven.

But regardless of what God sent us here for, when it's completed we die. So in the above dialogue, the reason God let the person with Cancer die, is because that person completed the reason he was sent here.

In my extended family's case, many people will miss the 47 year old who was just taken. (I didn't know her that well) But if she was of God, and if her immediate family is of God, they will all be together again, and hopefully in Heaven.

This is the hope and promise of Christianity.

[Guest]

I hope this isn't going off topic too much, because I want to comment on this. The professor said:

"Professor: 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?"

I'm also commenting on this because we just lost a 47 year old woman to cancer in my family.

The reason God is still good, even if a baby died, is because the hope and promise of Christianity is not for this life. And I think the younger you are, the harder it is to grasp this.

I believe souls get sent to Earth for several reasons. One is to suffer in certain ways. (we don't like that one) Others are to do the good works of God. Usually we like that. I ask God almost daily that I may be 1 of the people who does His will on Earth as the angels do in Heaven.

But regardless of what God sent us here for, when it's completed we die. So in the above dialogue, the reason God let the person with Cancer die, is because that person completed the reason he was sent here.

In my extended family's case, many people will miss the 47 year old who was just taken. (I didn't know her that well) But if she was of God, and if her immediate family is of God, they will all be together again, and hopefully in Heaven.

This is the hope and promise of Christianity.

Amen~!

And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. Revelation 21:3-5

[nebula]

It is truly inspiring how this nutty professor loses the argument in this made up dialogue. No doubt: if all people would inform themselves about evolution by reading imagined dialogues instead of biology textbooks, its acceptance would drop considerably.

For the ecord, evolution wasn't the argument. Rather it was the existence of God.

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.

What do you have to say with regards to this?

[Guest man]

I believe souls get sent to Earth for several reasons. One is to suffer in certain ways. (we don't like that one) Others are to do the good works of God. Usually we like that. I ask God almost daily that I may be 1 of the people who does His will on Earth as the angels do in Heaven.

Romans 9

¹⁷ For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.”

¹⁸ Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.

¹⁹ You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?”

²⁰ But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”

²¹ Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

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[missmuffet]

I hope this isn't going off topic too much, because I want to comment on this. The professor said:

"Professor: 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?"

I'm also commenting on this because we just lost a 47 year old woman to cancer in my family.

The reason God is still good, even if a baby died, is because the hope and promise of Christianity is not for this life. And I think the younger you are, the harder it is to grasp this.

I believe souls get sent to Earth for several reasons. One is to suffer in certain ways. (we don't like that one) Others are to do the good works of God. Usually we like that. I ask God almost daily that I may be 1 of the people who does His will on Earth as the angels do in Heaven.

But regardless of what God sent us here for, when it's completed we die. So in the above dialogue, the reason God let the person with Cancer die, is because that person completed the reason he was sent here.

In my extended family's case, many people will miss the 47 year old who was just taken. (I didn't know her that well) But if she was of God, and if her immediate family is of God, they will all be together again, and hopefully in Heaven.

This is the hope and promise of Christianity.

I believe that God has a plan for your life on this earth.If a baby dies it is Gods will and his plan,although we do not know what that is.If a person is suffering on this earth from some type of disability God is using this for His Glory.God does not make mistakes so God has a purpose for the suffering of believers on this Earth.Will he use that in His Kingdom??

[Jayyycuuup]

Thank you for re-sharing this Fez! Was a wonderful and very thought provoking read.

God bless you!