An interesting conversation between a student and a teacher - TOPIC

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In this version, there were three questions from the professor the student

could not answer. It it had been a devotee he could have answered those

questions very sensibly.

 

 

ys, jdd

 

 

> Pamho!

>

> One Prabhu sent me the following mail. We have had the story before in a

> slightly different version - and last time the student was none other than

> Einstein

>

> Ys, AKD

>

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> Letter PAMHO:11550982 (159 lines)

> Ramananda Raya (das) BCS (Radhadesh - B)

> 09-May-06 10:23 (12:23 +0200)

> Ajita Krishna (das) (Copenhagen - DK) [938]

> For: Defeating Atheism

> An interesting conversation between a student and a teacher -

> TOPIC

> GOD.

> ---------------------------

> The following conversation was put on BCS Istaghosti by Tulasi Manjari dd

> (BCS). Members of 'Defeating Atheism' must be interested to read this one.

> --------------------------

> 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 fellow. 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, smelt 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.

>

> Now the student said can I ask something to you Professor.

>

> 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 its 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 endeavor, 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 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 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. .

>

> 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, President of India.

>

>

> thank you for reading it.

> your servant

> tulasi manjari

>

>

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