[Inspiring] A Conversation Between A Professor Of Science And His Student (Albert Einstein?) On Faith And God

Lady of Light

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I found this floating around on Facebook, and I thought it should be shared here.



“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 it’s 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. “


P.S. That student was Albert Einstein.
 

SUNGAZER

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Re: A Conversation Between A Professor Of Science And His Student (Albert Einstein) On Faith And God

Good stuff! He makes a valid point.
 

100th Monkey

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Re: A Conversation Between A Professor Of Science And His Student (Albert Einstein) On Faith And God

A lot of the things that we think about as offsets something else may in fact be just less of something. There is no such thing as cold just less heat. There is no such thing as darkness just less light. How many other things can be explained like this?

Sound, thought, consciousness, good, evil?
 

SUNGAZER

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Re: A Conversation Between A Professor Of Science And His Student (Albert Einstein) On Faith And God

A lot of the things that we think about as offsets something else may in fact be just less of something. There is no such thing as cold just less heat. There is no such thing as darkness just less light. How many other things can be explained like this?

Sound, thought, consciousness, good, evil?

Probably just about anything we can think of, we just don't think of it, is all.
 

tell me more

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Re: A Conversation Between A Professor Of Science And His Student (Albert Einstein) On Faith And God

All I can say is, this comes down to a very philosophical view on every topic. How do we know? What is really there? Or not there? What exists? How do we know it exists? How do we know it doesn't?

I love philosophy and can engage myself into a long conversation with any rational person about just about any topic.
 

Truth Vibrations

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Re: A Conversation Between A Professor Of Science And His Student (Albert Einstein) On Faith And God

Can anybody prove that this was actually said by Albert Einstein, if so please post it I would like to see the proof?
 

Lady of Light

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Re: A Conversation Between A Professor Of Science And His Student (Albert Einstein) On Faith And God

Can anybody prove that this was actually said by Albert Einstein, if so please post it I would like to see the proof?

I had considered that when I posted this. The reason I went ahead with the post was because of the message contained within the supposed "quote".

Because the message is more important than the validity of who may have said it, I kept it as I found it, quoted as Albert Einstein.
 

Boiling Frog

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Re: A Conversation Between A Professor Of Science And His Student (Albert Einstein) On Faith And God

Apparently the story isn't real, and in 2004 it was circulated around the Internet with no mention of Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein was also apparently an agnostic who didn't believe in a personal God. Otherwise you're right the message is great, and no harm done by posting.
 

SUNGAZER

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Re: A Conversation Between A Professor Of Science And His Student (Albert Einstein) On Faith And God

I personally don't care WHERE it came from. The message is a good one. It shows that we don't look at things properly, and we need to start changing how we look at things. Our perspectives on EVERYTHING need to change and open up.
 

100th Monkey

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Re: A Conversation Between A Professor Of Science And His Student (Albert Einstein) On Faith And God

We definitely don't look at things properly, we look at everything with a closed mind. We believe we know the answers to everything, because once we have an answer we like to stick with that one. No matter what new evidence comes to the surface.
 
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