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A Thoughtful Moment
Proving Faith
There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing a s darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?
Student: You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is th 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 realise 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 endeavour. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
The class was in an uproar.
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?
The class broke 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 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 and God is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.
PS. The student was Einstein.
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing a s darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?
Student: You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is th 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 realise 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 endeavour. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
The class was in an uproar.
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?
The class broke 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 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 and God is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.
PS. The student was Einstein.