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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, smelled 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 haveanything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero

which is noheat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such

thingas 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 ofheat, 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 ofsomething. You can have low light, normal light,

bright light,flashing light.... But if youhave no light constantly, you have

nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darknessisn't. If it

were, you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn'tyou?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 arguethere is life and then

there is death, a good God and a bad God. Youare viewing the concept of God as

something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a

thought. It useselectricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less

fullyunderstood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to

beignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is

not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tellme, Professor. Do you

teach your students that they evolved from amonkey?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 realizewhere 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 endeavour,are you not teaching your opinion,

sir? Are you not a scientist but apreacher?(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'sbrain, felt it, touched or smelled it?.....No one appears to have

doneso. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable,

demonstrable protocol, science says that you have nobrain, 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 faceunfathomable.) Prof: I guess you'll

have to take them on faith, son.Student : That is it, sir.. The link between

man & god is FAITH. Thatis all that keeps things moving & alive--

cheersNarendra P. Sastry,