The Student’s Brilliant Answer
In the U.S. many Christian students come across that occasional college professor who swerves from from their topic to lecture their captive audience about how idiotic it is to believe in God’s 
existence, My professor’s real topic? NASA’s latest discoveries about the nine planets in our solar system. This was, of course, long before Pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006, reducing the number to eight.
existence, My professor’s real topic? NASA’s latest discoveries about the nine planets in our solar system. This was, of course, long before Pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006, reducing the number to eight.The professor spent 30 minutes of his 2nd or 3rd lecture proving that the Virgin Mary could not have given birth to a male child because she had no Y chromosome. I admit, I started getting irritated. Until the Christian guy next to me leaned over and said, “That’s why they call it a MIR-A-CLE.”
In honor of that professor, I would like to share the following story.
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A professor at the university asked his students the following question:
– Everything that exists was created by God?One student bravely answered:– Yes, created by God.– Did God create everything? – a professor asked.“Yes, sir,” replied the student.The professor asked :– If God created everything, then God created evil, since it exists. And according to the principle that our deeds define ourselves, then God is evil.The student became silent after hearing such an answer. The professor was very pleased with himself. He boasted to students for proving once again that faith in God is a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said:– Can I ask you a question, professor?“Of course,” replied the professor.A student got up and asked:–Professor, is cold a thing?
– What kind of question? Of course it exists. Have you ever been cold?Students laughed at the young man’s question. The young man answered:– Actually, sir, cold doesn’t exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is actually the absence of heat. A person or object can be studied on whether it has or transmits energy. Absolute zero (-460 degrees Fahrenheit) is a complete absence of heat. All matter becomes inert and unable to react at this temperature. Cold does not exist. We created this word to describe what we feel in the absence of heat.
A student continued:– Professor, does darkness exist?— Of course it exists.– You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness also does not exist. Darkness is actually theabsence of light. We can study the light but not the darkness. We can use Newton’s prism to spread white light across multiple colors and explore the different wavelengths of each color. You can’t measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into the world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you tell how dark a certain space is? You measure how much light is presented. Isn’t it so? Darkness is a term man uses to describe what happens in the absence of light.
In the end, the young man asked the professor:– Sir, does evil exist?This time it was uncertain, the professor answered:– Of course, as I said before. We see him every day. Cruelty, numerous crimes and violence throughout the world. These examples are nothing but a manifestation of evil.To this, the student answered:– Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist for itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is like darkness and cold—a man-made word to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not faith or love, which exist as light and warmth. Evil is the result of the absence of Divine love in the human heart. It’s the kind of cold that comes when there is no heat, or the kind of darkness that comes when there’s no light.
The student’s name was Albert Einstein.
Final Comments
Actually, the student’s name was not Albert Einstein.
Instead, this story is by an unknown author. Which is why I can re-post it on my blog—there are no copyright issues. My thanks to The Albert Einstein Archives in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem for researching the question.
All my images came from Pixabay.com.
The Curiosity Rover is still working on Mars today, 11 years after it’s landing.
The bundled up man enduring harsh winter weather is in Afghanistan.
The scuba diver’s swim occurred on New Year’s and you can see a thin layer of ice.
