Inspirational Story!

An atheist professor of Philosophy speaks to his class on the problem Science has with God. He asks one of his new students to stand and the conversation begins.

Prof: do you believe in God?

Stu: absolutely Sir!

Prof: is God good?

Stu: sure.

Prof: is God all powerful?

Stu: 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 dint. How is this God good then?

Student is silent.

Prof: you can’t answer. Can you? Let’s start again young fellow. Is God good?

Stu: yes.

Prof: is Satan good?

Stu: no

Prof: where does Satan come from?

Stu: from God.

Prof: that’s right. Tell me son, if there is evil in this world?

Stu: yes.

Prof: evil is everywhere. Isn’t it? And God did make everything. Correct?

Stu: yes.

Prof: so who created evil?

Student doesn’t answer.

Prof: is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world. Don’t they?

Stu: yes Sir.

Prof: so who created them?

Student has no answer.

Prof: science says you have five senses. You use to identify and observe the word around you. Tell me son, have you ever seen God?

Stu: no Sir.

Prof: tell us if you have ever heard your God?

Stu: no Sir.

Prof: have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?

Stu: no sir.

Prof: yet you still believe in Him

Stu: yes.

Prof: according to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol science says your God doesn’t exist. What do you say to that son?

Stu: nothing, I only have my faith.

Prof: faith and yes, that is the only problem science has. 

Stu: can I ask you something sir? Is there such a thing as heat?

Prof: yes.

Stu: and is there such a thing as cold?

Prof: yes.

Stu: no sir, there isn’t.

The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.

Stu: sir you can have lots of heat, super heat, mega heat, a little heat or no heat but we don’t have anything called cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We can’t measure cold, heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, just the absence of heat.

There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.

Stu: what about darkness Prof? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Prof: yes, what is night if there isn’t any darkness?

Stu: you are wrong again sir. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light but if you have no light constantly it is called darkness. 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?

Stu: sir my point is that your philosophical premise is flawed.

Prof: can you explain how?

Stu: sir you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and 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 is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it. Now tell me prof. 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.

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

Prof shakes his head with a smile beginning to realize where the argument is going.

Stu: since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work, and can’t 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.

Stu: is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the professor’s brain.

Class breaks out into laughter.

Stu: is there anyone here who has ever heard the prof’s brain, felt it, touched it 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?

The room is silent. The prof. stares at the student, his face unfathomable.

Prof: I guess you will have to take them on faith son!

Stu: that is it sir. The link between man and God is faith…that is all that keeps things alive and going.

Want to know who that student was…this is a true story and the student was none other than

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam!!