"God
created everything?" The professor asked.
"Yes
sir, he certainly did," the student replied.
The
professor answered, "If God created everything; then God
created evil. And, since evil exists, and according to
the principle that our works define who we are, then we
can assume God is evil."
The
student became quiet & did not respond to the
professor's hypothetical definition. The professor,
quite pleased with himself, boasted to the students that
he had proven once more that the religious faith was a
myth.
Another student raised his hand & said, "May I ask you a
question, professor?"
"Of
course," replied the professor.
The
student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold
exist?"
"What
kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you
never been cold?"
The
other students snickered at the young man's
question. The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does
not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we
consider cold is in reality the absence of
heat. Absolute zero (-460F) is the total absence of
heat; and all matter becomes inert and incapable of
reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We
have created this word to describe how we feel if we
have no heat."
The
student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"
The
professor responded, "Of course it does."
The
student replied , "Once again you are wrong sir,
darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality
the absence of light. Light we can study, but not
darkness. In fact, we can use Newton 's prism to break
white light into many colors & study the various wave
lengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A
simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness &
illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space
is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this
correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe
what happens when there is no light present."
Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does
evil exist?"
Now
uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course, as I
have already said. We see it everyday. It is in the
daily examples of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the
multitude of crime & violence everywhere in the
world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil.
To
this the student replied, "Evil does not exist, sir, or
at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply
the absence of God. It is just like darkness & cold, a
word that man has created to describe the absence of
God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what
happens when man does not have God's love present in his
heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no
heat, or the darkness that comes when there is no
light."
The
professor sat down.
The
young man's name, none other than -- Albert Einstein --
-- -- -- A true story