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Hey youse guys, I got this email and I wanted to ask you brainier folks if you could verify if this is an actual accurate Historical fact.Here it is...Does Evil Exist ?A University professor at a well known institution of higher learning 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, he certainly did," the student replied. The professor answered, "If God created everything; then God created evil. And, since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are, then we can assume God is evil." The student became quiet and did not answer the professor's hypothetical definition. The professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth. Another student raised his hand and said, "May I ask you a question, professor?" "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 never been cold?" The other students snickered at the young man's question. The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460 F) is the total absence of heat; and all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how 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 not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there 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 already said. We see it everyday. It is in the daily examples of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil." To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or the darkness that comes when there is no light." The professor sat down. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The young man's name?? -- Albert EinsteinThanks y'all.

Hey youse guys, I got this email and I wanted to ask you brainier folks if you could verify if this is an actual accurate Historical fact.Hey Annie,I have this website that I like to use to check this kind of thing out (email forwards). So, I checked out the one on Einstein and here is the link to what they said about that email.http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/e/einstein-god.htmHere is what they said:Summary of the eRumorThis is an account of a classroom encounter between young Albert Einstein and a professor who was arguing that the Christian faith is a myth.Einstein argues that evil is the absence of God in the same way that darkness is the absence of light and cold is the absence of heat.The TruthThere is no evidence that this exchange ever took place.This eRumor has circulated without Einstein's name and someone added it to a version that started circulating in the summer of 2004.Also, it is not likely that young Einstein would have presented this argument.In his Autobiographical Notes, he states that even though his Jewish family was not religious, he developed a "deep religiosity" as Jewish child that came to an end when he was 12.He says he developed a skeptical attitude that never left him.He made reference to "God" on many occasions but also said he did not believe some of the stories in the Bible and did not believe in a personal God.~~~~~~~~~~~~~It's too bad it wasn't true about Albert Einstein; but it is an interesting dialog for sure. :-) ~Joy

That's great Joy, thank you so much. I didn't know where to begin to verify this one.I always like to verify things, because it's sad that "Christians" would have to add to something ... like God needs help or something ... Ha.Have gotten quite a few things that I've needed to verify on a Christian site before using it on a secular one. Ain't nuthin' worse than having a non-believer yell "Fraud" at ya and them be right. :-? Thanks again ... Really !!! :-)