the professor

Author: Unknown

Aug 9, 2005

The university professor challenged his students with this question.
"Did God create everything that exists?"
A student bravely replied, "Yes, he did!"
"God created everything?" The professor asked.
"Yes sir", the student replied.
The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God createdevil, since evil exists, and according to the principal that our worksdefine who we are, then God is evil".
The student became quiet before such an answer. The professor, quitepleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had proven oncemore that the Christian faith was a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a questionprofessor?"
"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 neverbeen cold?"
The students snickered at the young man's question.
The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According tothe laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence ofheat. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has ortransmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have ortransmit energy. Absolute zero (- 460 degrees F) is the total absenceof heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at thattemperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describehow 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 notexist either Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we canstudy, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to breakwhite light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of eachcolor. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can breakinto a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark acertain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't thiscorrect? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens whenthere 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 alreadysaid. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man'sinhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violenceeverywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else butevil."
To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least itdoes not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It isjust like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describethe absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, orlove that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of whathappens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It'slike the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness thatcomes when there is no light."
The professor sat down.

--From Sherry's Inspirational List

got this thru an email post of a friend... just sharing!