WHY SCIENCE FAILS TO
EXPLAIN GOD?
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>"Let me explain the problem science has with God."
>The atheist professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then
>asks one of his new students to stand.
>"You're a Muslim, aren't you, son?"
>"Yes, sir."
>"So you believe in God?"
>"Absolutely."
>"Is God good?"
>"Sure! God's good."
>"Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?"
>"Yes."
>The professor grins knowingly and considers for a moment.
>"Here's one for you. Let's say there's a sick person over here and
>you can cure him. You can do it. Would you help them?
>"Would you try?"
>"Yes sir, I would."
>"So you're good...!"
>"I wouldn't say that."
>"Why not say that? You would help a sick and maimed person if you
>could ... in fact most of us would if we could ... God doesn't.
>[No answer.]
>"He doesn't, does he? My brother was a Muslim who died of cancer
>even though he prayed to God to heal him. How is this God good?
>Hmmm? Can you answer that one?"
>[No answer]
>The elderly man is sympathetic. "No, you can't, can you?"
>He takes a sip of water from a glass on his desk to give the student
>time to relax. In philosophy, you have to go easy with the new ones.
>"Let's start again, young fella." "Is God good?"
>"Er... Yes."
>"Is Satan good?"
>"No."
>"Where does Satan come from?"
>The student falters.
>"From... God..."
>"That's right. God made Satan, didn't he?"
>The elderly man runs his bony fingers through his thinning hair and
>turns to
>the smirking, student audience.
>"I think we're going to have a lot of fun this semester, ladies and
>gentlemen."
>He turns back to the Muslim.
>"Tell me, son. Is there evil in this world?"
>"Yes, sir."
>"Evil's everywhere, isn't it? Did God make everything?"
>"Yes."
>"Who created evil?
>[No answer]
>"Is there sickness in this world? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All
>the terrible things - do they exist in this world?"
>The student squirms on his feet. "Yes."
>"Who created them? "
>[No answer]
>The professor suddenly shouts at his student. "WHO! CREATED THEM?
>TELL ME, PLEASE!
>"The professor closes in for the kill and
climbs into the Muslim's
>face.
>In a still small voice: "God created all evil, didn't He, son?"
>[No answer]
>The student tries to hold the steady, experienced gaze and fails.
>Suddenly the lecturer breaks away to pace the front of the classroom
>like an aging panther.
>The class is mesmerised.
>"Tell me," he continues,
>"How is it that this God is good if He created all evil throughout
>all time?"
>The professor swishes his arms around to encompass the wickedness of
>the world.
>"All the hatred, the brutality, all the pain, all the torture, all
>the death and ugliness and all the suffering created by this good
>God is all over the world, isn't it, young man?"
>[No answer]
>"Don't you see it all over the place? Huh?"
>Pause.
>"Don't you?" The professor leans into the student's face again
and
>whispers,
>"Is God good?"
>[No answer]
>"Do you believe in God, son?"
>The student's voice betrays him and cracks.
>"Yes, professor. I do."
>The old man shakes his head sadly.
>"Science says you have five senses you use to identify and observe
>the world around you.
>"You have never seen God, Have you? "
>"No, sir. I've never seen Him."
>"Then tell us if you've ever heard your God?"
>"No, sir. I have not."
>"Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God or smelt your God...in
>fact, do you have any sensory perception of your God whatsoever?"
>[No answer]
>"Answer me, please."
>"No, sir, I'm afraid I haven't."
>"You're AFRAID... you haven't?"
>"No, sir."
>"Yet you still believe in him?"
>"...yes..."
>"That takes FAITH!" The professor smiles sagely at the underling.
>"According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable
>protocol, science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say to
>that, son? Where is your God now?"
>[The student doesn't answer]
>"Sit down, please."
>The Muslim sits...Defeated.
>Another Muslim raises his hand.
"Professor, may I address the
>class?"
>The professor turns and smiles.
>"Ah, another Muslim in the vanguard! Come, come, young man. Speak
>some proper wisdom to the gathering."
>The Muslim looks around the room. "Some interesting points you are
>making, sir. Now I've got a question for you. Is there such thing as
>heat?"
>"Yes," the professor replies. "There's heat."
>"Is there such a thing as cold?"
>"Yes, son, there's cold too."
>"No, sir, there isn't."
>The professor's grin freezes. The room suddenly goes very cold. The
>second Muslim continues.
>"You can have lots of heat, even more heat, super-heat, 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, otherwise we would be able to go colder than 458 - - You see,
>sir, cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We
>cannot measure cold. Heat we can measure in thermal
>units because heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir,
>just the absence of it."
>Silence. A pin drops somewhere in the classroom.
>"Is there such a thing as darkness, professor?"
>"That's a dumb question, son. What is night if it
>isn't darkness? What are you getting at...?"
>"So you say there is such a thing as darkness!?"
>"Yes..."
>"You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something, it 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? That's the meaning we
>use to define the word. In reality, Darkness isn't. If it were, you
>would be able to make darkness darker and give me a jar of it. Can
>you...give me a jar of darker darkness, professor?"
>Despite himself, the professor smiles at the young effrontery before
>him. This will indeed be a good semester.
>“Would you mind telling us what your point is, young man?"
>"Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical premise is flawed
>to start with and so your conclusion must be in error...."
>The professor goes toxic. "Flawed...? How dare you...!""
>"Sir, may I explain what I mean?"
>The class is all ears.
>"Explain... oh, explain..." The professor makes an admirable
effort
>to regain control. Suddenly he is affability itself. He waves his hand
>to silence the class, for the student to continue.
>"You are working on the premise of duality," the Muslim explains.
>"That for example there is life and then there's death; a good God
>and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something
>finite, something we can measure. Sir, science cannot even explain a
>thought. It uses electricity and magnetism but has never seen, much
>less fully understood them. 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, merely the absence of it."
>The young man holds up a newspaper he takes from the desk of a
>neighbor who has been reading it.
>"Here is one of the most disgusting tabloids this country hosts,
>professor. Is there such a thing as immorality?"
>"Of course there is, now look..."
>"Wrong again, sir. You see, immorality is merely the absence of
>morality. Is there such thing as injustice? No. Injustice is the
>absence of justice. Is there such a thing as evil?" The Muslim
>pauses. "Isn't evil the absence of good?"
>The professor's face has turned an alarming color.
>He is so angry he is temporarily speechless.
>The Muslim continues. "If there is evil
in the world, professor, and
>we all agree there is, then God, if he exists, must be accomplishing
>a work through the agency of evil. What is that work, God is
>accomplishing? Islam tells us it is to see if each one of us will,
>choose good over evil."
>The professor bridles. "As a philosophical scientist, I don't vie
>this matter as having anything to do with any choice; as a realist, I
absolutely
>do not recognize the concept of God or any other theological factor
>as being part of the world equation because God is not observable."
>"I would have thought that the absence of God's moral code in this
>world is probably one of the most observable phenomena going," the
>Muslim replies.
>"Newspapers make billions of dollars reporting it every week! Tell
>me, professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a
>monkey?"
>"If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, young
>man, yes, of course I do."
>"Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?"
>The professor makes a sucking sound with his teeth and gives his
>student a silent, stony stare.
>"Professor!. 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 now not a
>scientist, but a priest?"
>"I will overlook your impudence in the light of our philosophical
>discussion. Now, have you quite finished?" the professor hisses.
>"So you don't accept God's moral code to do what is righteous?"
>"I believe in what is - that's science!"
>"Ahh! SCIENCE!" the student's face splits into a grin.
>"Sir, you rightly state that science is the study of observed
>phenomena. Science too is a premise which is flawed..."
>"SCIENCE IS FLAWED..?" the professor splutters.
>The class is in uproar.
>The Muslim remains standing until the commotion has subsided.
>"To continue the point you were making earlier to the other student,
>may I give you an example of what I mean?"
>The professor wisely keeps silent.
>The Muslim looks around the room. "Is
there anyone in the class who
>has ever seen air, Oxygen, molecules, atoms, the professor's brain?"
>The class breaks out in laughter. The Muslim points towards his
>elderly, crumbling tutor.
>"Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor's brain...
>felt the professor's brain, touched or smelt the professor's brain?"
>No one appears to have done so. The Muslim shakes! his head sadly.
>"It appears no-one here has had any sensory perception of the
>professor's brain whatsoever. Well, according to the rules of
>empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science, I DECLARE that
>the professor has no brain."