Religion and Science.

MontyPython I'm not trying to start any uproar or anything, I just felt like I had to post this. Thank you. NOTE: THIS IS A TRUE STORY. It dates back over 50 years ago.

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

Student: Yes, sir.

Professor: So you BELIEVE in GOD, yes?

Student: Absolutely, sir.

Professor: Is God good?

Student: Sure, of course.

Professor: Is God all powerful?

Student: Yes.

Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to save and bless his soul. Most of us would help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?

Student: *Silence*

Professor: Oh.. What's this? 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 create EVERYTHING, correct?

Student: Yes.

Professor: So who created evil?

Student: *Silence*

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

Student: Yes, sir.

Professor: So, who created them?

Student: *Silence*

Professor: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify the world around you. Tell me this son, have you ever seen God?

Student: No, sir.

Professor: Have you ever heard God?

Student: No sir.

Professor: Have you ever felt your God? Taste your God? Smelt your God? Have you ever used one of these senses towards your God?

Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.

Professor: According to the Empiracle, Testable, Demonstable Protocal, science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?

Student: Nothing. I only have my faith, sir.

Professor: *Chuckles* Ah faith. And that is the problem science has.

Student: Professor, if I may ask, is there such a thing as heat?

Professor: Yes.

Student: Is there a thing such as cold?

Professor: Yes.

Student: No, sir. That's where you're wrong. There isn't.

[The auditorium full of students is silent]

Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, super heat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything known as cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further than that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we 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.

[Students look amazed]

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 light. 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 is, well you wouldn't be able to make the darkness darker. Could you?

Professor: So what point are you trying to make, young man?

Student: My point is, sir, your philosophical premise is flawed.

Professor: Flawed? Explain how, boy.

Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and there is death, a good and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as infinite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but it is never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact as 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 they evolved from a monkey?

Professor: If you are referring to the cause of evolution, then yes. I do.

Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes sir?

[The professor shakes his head with a smile, and begins to understand the concept of where this is going]

Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot prove that this process is an ongoing endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist, but a preacher?

[The class begins to cheer]

Student: Is there anyone in here who has seen the professor's brain?

[Class laughs]

Student: Is there anyone in here who has heard the professor's brain, felt it, touched it, smelt it, or tasted it? Nobody appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstratable Protocal, science says you have no brain, sir. With all due to respect, sir, how do we trust them with lectures?

[The class grows silent and looks at the professor, who looks outstanded]

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

Student: That is it sir! Exactly! The link between God and man is FAITH! That is what keeps all alive and moving.

NOTE: That student was Albert Einstein as a young man. ;)

Comments

THIS IS SO EFFING TRUE! - RiverClanRocks (9/2/2015)

I KNOW RIGHT?! I was AMAZED when I read this quote! Just... WOW! - MontyPython (9/3/2015)

Religion is something I have never understood and how other people do baffles me. - muffinkid (9/4/2015)

Well, good for you then..? - MontyPython (9/4/2015)

k - Puga (9/6/2015)

Same good be said about how atheists don't believe in a creator. - visitor (9/7/2015)

Wow I didn't know Einstein was sassy - bobbythebrony (9/7/2015)

Nice job - visitor (11/21/2015)

Religion and science are two topics that completely contradict each other. As much as we fight and fight and fight, there's not a winnerin the end, no matter what. - Turkeyasylum (11/22/2015)

I definitely agree. I posted this during the time with the whole thing with Christians and Atheists to show that, for Atheists, Christians can have faith for God but they also have their own faith in whatever they believe in. For Christians, this shows that you can believe what you want, but you'll just have to let others trust and believe what they believe.

The fighting that happens with this is ridiculous. - MontyPython (11/22/2015)

Haha excellent - 2storm (1/10/2016)

They can both be confusing and both have unexplained ideas in them.
Maybe a scientist used the DNA of multiple animals to make God,
or God caused stuff proven by science so that the human race would rely on God less. - Skullkid755 (10/1/2016)