I received the following email in printed form and liked it so well that I typed it up today so I could send it to all I wished to. I added some of my own thoughts at the end also. I hope you enjoy it. Feel free to pass it around, with or without my comments at the end.
Veral
Science vs. God
An atheist science professor announced to his class:
‘Let me explain the problem science has with religion.’
‘You’re a Christian aren’t you son?’
‘Yes sir the student says.’
‘So you believe in God?’
‘Absolutely.’
‘Is God good?’
‘Sure! God’s good.’
‘Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?’
‘Yes.’
‘Are you good or evil?’
The professor grins knowingly. Aha! The Bible! He considers for a moment. ‘Here’s one for you. 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, sir, I would.’
‘So you’re good.’
‘I wouldn’t say that.’
‘But why not say that? You’d help a sick and maimed person if you could. Most of us would if we could. But God doesn’t.’
The student doesn’t answer, so the professor continues. ‘He doesn’t, does he? My brother was a Christian who died of cancer, even though he prayed to Jesus to heal him. How is this Jesus good? Can you answer that one?
The student remains silent. ‘No you can’t, can you? The professor says. He takes a sip of water from a glass on his desk to give the student time to relax. ‘Lets start again, young fella. Is God good?’
‘Er..Yes, the student says.’
‘Is satan good?’
The student doesn’t hesitate on this one. ‘No.’
‘Then where does Satan come from?’
The student falters. ‘From God.’
‘That’s right. God made Satan, didn’t he? Tell me, son. Is there evil in this world?’
‘Yes, sir.”
‘Evil’s everywhere, isn’t it? And God did make everything, correct?’
‘Yes.’
‘So who created evil?’ The professor continued, ‘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.’
Again the student has no answer. ‘Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things, do they exist in this world?’
The student squirms on his feet. ‘Yes.’
‘So who created them?’
The student does not answer again, so the professor repeats his question. ‘Who created them?’ There is still no answer. Suddenly the lecturer breaks away to pace in front of the classroom. The class is mesmerized. ‘Tell me,’ he continues on to another student. ‘Do you believe in Jesus Christ, son?’
The student’s voice betrays him and cracks. ‘Yes, professor, I do.’
The old man stops pacing. ‘Science says you have five senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Have you ever seen Jesus?’
‘No, sir, I’ve never seen Him.’
‘Then tell us if you’ve ever heard your Jesus?’
‘No, sir, I have not.’
‘Have you ever felt your Jesus, tasted your Jesus, or smelt your Jesus?’ Have you ever had any sensory perception of Jesus Christ, or God for that matter?’
‘ No, sir, I’m afraid I haven’t.’
‘Yet you still believe in him?’
‘Yes.’
‘According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your God doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?’
‘Nothing,’ the student replies, ‘I only have my faith.’
‘Yes faith,’ the professor repeats. ‘And that is the problem science has with God. There is no evidence, only faith.’
The student stands quietly for a moment, before asking a question of his own. ‘Professor, is there such a thing as heat?’
‘Yes.’
‘And is there such a ting as cold?’
‘Yes, son, there is cold too.’
‘No sir, there isn’t.’
The professor turns to face the student, obviously interested. The room suddenly becomes very quiet. The student begins to explain. ‘You can have lots of heat, even more heat, mega-heat, unlimited heat, white heat, a little heat, or no neat, but we don’t have anything called ‘cold’. We can hit down to 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can’t go any farther after that. There is no such thing; otherwise we would be able to go colder than the lowest – 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can’t go any farther after that. 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, 458 F, is the total absence of heat. You see, sir, cold is only 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.’
Silence across the room.
‘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?’
The professor begins to smile at the student in front of him. ‘So what point are you making, young man?’
‘Yes, professor, my point is, your philosophical premis is flawed to start with, and your conclusion must also be flawed.’
The professor’s face cannot hide his surprise this time. ‘Flawed? Can you explain how?’
‘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. 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?’
‘If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, young man, yes, of coarse I do.’
‘Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?’
The professor begins to shake his head, still smiling, as he realizes 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 now not a scientist, but a preacher?’
The class is in uproar. The student remains silent until the commotion has subsided. ‘To continue the pint you were making earlier to the other student, let me give you an example of what I mean.’ The student looks around the room. ‘Is there anyone in the class who has ever sent he professors brain?’ The class breaks out into laughter. ‘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 on appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, sciences says that you have no brain, with all due respect, sir.’ ‘So if science says you have no brain, how can we trust your lectures, sir?’
Now the room is silent. The professor just stares at the student, his face unreadable. Finally, after what seems an eternity, the old man answers. ‘I guess you’ll have to take them by faith.’
‘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?’ Now uncertain, the professor responds, ‘Of coarse, there is. We see it every day. 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.’
To this 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.’
The professor sat down.
The student was Albert Einstein.
Albert Einstein wrote a book titled God vs. Science in 1921.
By Veral Smith. 1/31/2010
Since the above time, science has become the most prevalent religion in the US, even dominating the thoughts of people who call themselves Christians, and how they believe what they read in the Bible. But consider how Webster defines science!
‘Science is the study of tangible things.’ -- So it is bared by it’s own definition from study of spiritual matters, and even in fact life itself, ALL life, in every thing, is an intangible spirit of life sent out by God, and the Bible tells us that it returns to him when a person dies. (It says the spirit of animals go down, that of humans up, and doesn’t mention the spirit of life given to plants.
Total ignorance, if not denial, of this fact has led science into its test tube mentality, with something around 40,000 scientists having dedicated their life to the study of life, with a belief that they will someday create life! They never will, as all life comes from our Creator God. -- A mix of minerals and water cannot be turned into a man, or any other kind of life. Only a spirit of life from God, which is and will be held accountable to God, can make a life, and form a plant or being from minerals and water. When this spirit leaves the body it has formed and maintained, we call the body dead, which it is, and it will remain forever without supernatural input of it’s spirit again. Yet, if another person who is yet alive, truly believes in the Almighty Creator, and asks for him to return his spirit of life, He will sometimes do it and the dead body will resume life. Christ did it when he walked the earth in human form, and instructed his followers to do it, and heal the sick, and I have personally witnessed both. --- This is not scientific though. You have to believe I’m telling you the truth, and in the supernatural nature and power of God, by faith.
Jesus said, if we truly believe in Him, and totally forsake our life to do his will, that He will ‘manifest’ himself, (his presence), to us. He can only manifest himself to us by making us feel his presence, or speaking to us (in countless ways), or seeing, (in special dreams and visions)! So, in fact, if science were to quit denying the Almighty Creator God and his Son Jesus Christ, and admit what Christians say, that they feel the presence of Christ, science would be allowed, by it’s own definition, to study spiritual matters, which are truly the source of all that science considers real.
If you have relied on science to prove whether God exists, perhaps it’s time to change your thinking until the majority of scientists accept an Almighty God as their own creator. The true test of whether there is a God is to receive the ‘manifestation’ of his presence within your own spirit of life. It’s a personal thing, not group, church, nation, or, until science changes, a scientific matter.
