Every time I hear that Coldplay song…
Faith...
All of this is false. See: http://imgur.com/a/pBBkt
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 its 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. I believe you have enjoyed the conversation. And if so, you’ll probably want your friends / colleagues to enjoy the same, won’t you?
Forward this to increase their knowledge … or FAITH.
By the way, that student was EINSTEIN.
This whole story is false and made up. Sorry. I'm not saying its points may not be valid and you are free to believe what you will. www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp
Thanks for following me. Be sure to check sources before reblogging! Also, your science in that post is flawed. For instance, you can readily observe evolution? Ever hear of antibiotic-resistant bacteria? Ever wonder why there is a new flu vaccine distributed every year? Evolution, observable and rapid. If you wish me to go into the other scientific mistakes contained therein, I would be more than happy to upon your request.
Cheers!
Rant of the day
I usually stick to stuff straight from the text, but I was reading the news today and got seriously irked. The Pope told a group of Austrian bishops pretty much to stop complaining about the Catholic Church’s doctrines against female priests and marriage for priests, and to just shut up and obey doctrine blindly. Here’s an analogous situation I came up with:
Have you read any of the books by CJ Werleman?
AnonymousI have not, but I have heard of him. Right now I’m just focusing on working with the source material here and seeing exactly what it does say and what it doesn’t. After that, I may consult secondary sources to see what others are saying about what it says. Going to religious school for years, I’ve had just about enough of people telling me what they think the Bible says, with very little emphasis on what it actually says and people’s ability to interpret it for themselves.
Another brutal conquest
Num 31: God tells the Israelites to conquer the Midianites. They do, and kill every male, carrying off all the women, flocks, and property.
God is not happy with this, and tells the Israelites ‘Now kill every male child, and kill every woman who has had intercourse with a man, but you may spare for yourselves every woman among them who has not had intercourse.”
God doesn’t seem to care if you’re innocent or not if you’re a member of a specific race.
First almost female-friendly chapter in the Bible so far!
Num 27: The LORD decides that women can inherit property, as long as they have absolutely no male relatives (fathers, brothers, sons, etc.) or a husband. If any of these men show up, they of course have to give up the property to that man, but hey! Women can actually partially own something if very specific circumstances are fulfilled.
Then in Num 30: Women are allowed to make vows and promises, as long as their father, husband, etc. doesn’t disallow them. A woman’s male relative (owner) can immediately negate any vow she makes, regardless of what she says.
How to get in God’s good books
Num 25: God’s favor is restored to the Israelites when the son of the high priest impales a man and his foreign wife together with a spear during their wedding. Before this, 24,000 of the Israelites were killed because they were partying it up with the Moabites or the Midianites, it’s a little wishy-washy on who they were.
Mixed signals
Num 22:20-22: “During the night, God came to Balaam and said to him, ‘If these men have come to summon you, then rise and go with them, but do only what I tell you.’ When morning came, Balaam rose, saddled his donkey, and went with the Moabite chiefs. But God was angry because Balaam was going, and as he came riding on his donkey, accompanied by his two servants, an angel of the LORD took his stand in the road to block his passage.”
God says, “Don’t do this.” He doesn’t. God says “go,” he goes, and for some reason God is made angry by this? I dare not think about what happens to those who get murkier instructions from on high.
(Side note: this section is in the middle of two passages which tell essentially the same story in two different forms.)
Also in this story: this man’s donkey talks to him about how much of an @$$#ole he is.
Yet another genocide perpetrated by the Israelites
Num 21: The Israelites decide to try to walk through Amorite territory, and they are opposed by the Amorite king, who doesn’t want them walking through his fields, “So they put him to the sword with his sons and all his people, until there was no survivor left, and they took possession of his land,” exactly according to what God had told them to do.
