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Nero was right.

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waynej506

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Whether your Atheist or christian, you can't deny that the teacher got owned.


http://www.slideshare.net/prakashjha7/ABOUT-GOD-Former-President-A-P-J-Abdul-Kalam


"An Atheist Professor of Philosophy speaks to his class on the problem Science has with God, The Almighty.

He asks one of his new students to stand and.....



Prof: So you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.

Prof: Is God good?
Student: Sure.


Prof: Is God all-powerful?
Student: Yes.


Prof: 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 is silent.)

Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fellow. Is
God good?
Student: Yes.

Prof: Is Satan good?
Student: No.

Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From...God...

Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.

Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything.
Correct?
Student: Yes.

Prof: So who created evil?


Student does not answer.


Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these
terrible things exist in the world, don't they?
Student: Yes, sir.

Prof: So, who created them?


Student has no answer.


Prof: 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.

Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?
Student: No, sir.

Prof: 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.

Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.

Prof: 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.

Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.

Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Prof: Yes.

Student: And is there such a thing as cold?
Prof: Yes.

Student: No sir. There isn't.


(The lecture theatre becomes 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 is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)


Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as
darkness?


Prof: 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 were you would be able to make darkness darker,
wouldn't you?

Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?

Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Prof: 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?

Prof: 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 shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize
where the argument is 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 is in uproar.)


Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the
Professor's brain?


(The class breaks 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 is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.)


Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.

Student: That is it sir... The link between man & god is FAITH . That is all that keeps things moving & alive. "
 

i_am_ben

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Time warp.


 

Speevy

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If philosophy professors weren't so weird, we wouldn't have these e-mail forwards.

Why don't they just teach philosophy?
 

Calcaneus

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I feel like posting popcorn.gif would still be a little too soon, but I can't think of anything else.
 

SapientWolf

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What's the new word for these sappy chain emails? Starts with a g. Some blogger made the word up.
 

Thai

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i hate it when someone posts this exchange and is all smug about it.


c'mon, we've seen brains in people, we can do MRI's, our heads throb. There is enough evidence to conclude that everyone has a brain. To go and then say that certain people don't physically have brains takes an enormous moron.

And people who post this thinking they have a point are also enormous morons.

FFS.
 

Cyan

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Yeah, thought it would be this.

a) this never happened, the story is apocryphal wish-fulfillment
b) even if it had, this would only prove that this prof is a moron for arguing so poorly
 

malingenie

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Mega fail. All the students questions can be put to empirical testing. The prof failed at argument.
 

teiresias

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Did my grandmother forward that to you after she got it from her friend who got it from her friend?

Seriously, why is this fake shit worth posting?
 

demon

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Fucking terrible, and blatantly fake. It's easy to prove your point when you're arguing with a fictional retard.
 

Trurl

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KHarvey16 said:
The only person that got owned was me because I read all of that.
But what, my dear chap, is getting owned but the absence of winning?

[GAF's keyboards cease clicking]
 

ToxicAdam

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As someone who has spent too many hours in college classrooms (even community colleges), the student NEVER wins against the professor. NEVER. In fact, it's only at the mercy of the professor on how easy the student gets off.
 

BobDylan

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read the title. thought this has to be about religion

i was satisfied after reading the op
 

ToxicAdam

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One forum truism: if a thread title has the word "pwn/own" in it, it's going to be retarded 95% of the time.
 

StoOgE

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waynej506 said:
Wow talk about some persecution. Are you guys Romans or something??:lol

You just posted a retarded chain email as proof of something.

The only reason the religious person won the argument is because a religious person wrote the entire exchange so they could get their rocks off at the thought of showing up some intellectual know it all that he just knew was wrong.
 

Speevy

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If a teacher ever walked up to a student and asked them "Do you believe in God" without context or provocation, I'd fire that professor so fast it would make their head spin.

You can certainly unsettle ideas and challenge preconceptions of reality without personal attention being called to one student.

That, more than anything else, is why this is so fake.
 
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Anyone ever get that e-mail about Mel Gibson being beaten so bad that he lost his face, and some rich guy paid for his plastic surgery? This reminds me of that.
 
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