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.
I believe you have enjoyed the conversation. And if so, you’ll
probably want your friends / colleagues to enjoy the same, won’t you? Forward
this to increase their knowledge … or FAITH.
By the way, that student was EINSTEIN
Source
:
Ikhwannul Kholis
