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Thursday, October 06, 2005

Interesting Conversation!!!

Hey people......not getting time at all to blog.....main bechari, kaam ke bhoj ki mari :)

well, I have this absolutely fantastic conservation forwarded to me by a friend.....

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty. He asks one of his new students to stand and....

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. 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, smelled 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 says 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 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?
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 endeavour, 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 smelled 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.

Do you know who the student is.... That young man was ALBERT EINSTEIN.......

17 Comments:

  • At 5:23 AM, October 06, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    That answers the question that had me foxed for years... "Albert Einstein ko gussa kyun aata hai?"

     
  • At 9:18 AM, October 06, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    @seema : thanks to me....you got the answer ;-)

     
  • At 9:12 PM, October 06, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    that was a interesting read..

    hei cmon pulse..do post more..u were so regular..hmmm

    when i came here..i thot..there wud be atleast 3-4 posts..which i wud have not read..bcos that was the pace at which u were posting..and now jus 1..hmmm

     
  • At 11:35 PM, October 06, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hmmm hmmm hmmm ... shabdon ka khilwaad...achcha hai achha hai ... but the truth still is a mystery!

     
  • At 8:37 PM, October 07, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Amazing quote! really was, where did you find it?
    Sir you surprise me with your posts sometimes! Kudos.

     
  • At 11:09 PM, October 07, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    @GD: boss, time is the problem....burden of work....hopefully it should change soon ;-) phir posts ke barish hogi..he he

     
  • At 11:11 PM, October 07, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    @DJ: agar mystery solve ho jaye, toh jeene ka maza chala jaye....

     
  • At 11:12 PM, October 07, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    @anonymous : sir, do i know who you are? Dim, the great ;-)

     
  • At 4:26 AM, October 08, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    waitin for the posts ki baarish..he he

     
  • At 7:46 AM, October 08, 2005, Blogger Flying Machine said…

    No words, just loved it.

     
  • At 2:36 AM, October 10, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    if only faith could be explained...There are always going to be questions that have no answer, and there are always answers that we have no questions to, science on one hand feeds the brains and our soul feeds on faith.. i respect science for all its wonders and the luxury it has offered us, but its the faith inside me that allows me to trust science.. so i for one, am gonan keep belieivng in Jale vishnu, Sthale Vishnu, Vishnur askasam uchyate, sthavaram jangamam Vishnu, sarvam vishnumayam jagath

     
  • At 3:07 AM, October 10, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I didnt know you spoke Greek!

     
  • At 10:34 AM, October 10, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    pulse ji..naaya post chahiye!!

     
  • At 12:32 AM, October 15, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    so where are you lost???

     
  • At 12:32 AM, October 15, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    that last quest was from me.. :) here goes again - so where are you lost huh?? huh??

     
  • At 2:07 AM, October 15, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    @GD & Dreams: lost in the work...will do a post soon, promise :)

     
  • At 3:21 PM, November 25, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    http://talk.thewb.com/viewtopic.php?topic=438093&forum=1&123

    check out alula

     

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