<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+Jun 29 2007, 04:55 PM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ Jun 29 2007, 04:55 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->in e-mail:
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In a classroom of India, 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.....
[...]
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.
****************
WHO THAT STUDENT WAS?
This is a true story, and the student was none other than...
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, the present president of India .
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[right][snapback]70633[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Bodhi, the modern motif of "the atheist professor trumped by the believing student" is a famous one in American christoislamic circles where attempts at atheist-bashing is a passtime the scary believers have. It's a huge fraud.
See some original examples:
http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/ath/...m_urb_chalk.htm
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/chalk.htm
No atheist who's thought his position through - professor or otherwise - would ever <i>ever</i> be fool enough to say "you'll have to take it on faith". (In fact, I can't imagine anyone from any religion - other than christoislamism - would reach for the faith excuse.) Anyway, if such a professor existed, he could just have offered to take the students to see a scan of his brain... he'd never say 'have faith'....
This tale is very much indicative of some simple-minded person inventing something. Also look at the entire story: setup, beginning, middle, climax/tear-down. It's obviously a <i>story</i>, not merely narrated as one.
Also, which atheist teacher in India - except in a christian school I suppose (<i>do</i> they employ atheists in India's christian schools; islamic schools certainly wouldn't) - would ask about satan? Other schools wouldn't mention any satans, I don't think.
Ask your email correspondent to prove that Abdul Kalam had that experience or else to stop creating slander. Abdul Kalam has too great a brain to hide behind a non-argument like 'faith'. (Faith is belief with no reason - it's belief in something in spite of evidence to the contrary... Faith is the christoislamic excuse, and the most famous statement they hide behind.)
And I cannot accept that Abdul Kalam would ever doubt evolution (unless and until he states it in an official capacity to the public). What slander against our worthy President.
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In a classroom of India, 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.....
[...]
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.
****************
WHO THAT STUDENT WAS?
This is a true story, and the student was none other than...
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, the present president of India .
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[right][snapback]70633[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Bodhi, the modern motif of "the atheist professor trumped by the believing student" is a famous one in American christoislamic circles where attempts at atheist-bashing is a passtime the scary believers have. It's a huge fraud.
See some original examples:
http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/ath/...m_urb_chalk.htm
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/chalk.htm
No atheist who's thought his position through - professor or otherwise - would ever <i>ever</i> be fool enough to say "you'll have to take it on faith". (In fact, I can't imagine anyone from any religion - other than christoislamism - would reach for the faith excuse.) Anyway, if such a professor existed, he could just have offered to take the students to see a scan of his brain... he'd never say 'have faith'....
This tale is very much indicative of some simple-minded person inventing something. Also look at the entire story: setup, beginning, middle, climax/tear-down. It's obviously a <i>story</i>, not merely narrated as one.
Also, which atheist teacher in India - except in a christian school I suppose (<i>do</i> they employ atheists in India's christian schools; islamic schools certainly wouldn't) - would ask about satan? Other schools wouldn't mention any satans, I don't think.
Ask your email correspondent to prove that Abdul Kalam had that experience or else to stop creating slander. Abdul Kalam has too great a brain to hide behind a non-argument like 'faith'. (Faith is belief with no reason - it's belief in something in spite of evidence to the contrary... Faith is the christoislamic excuse, and the most famous statement they hide behind.)
And I cannot accept that Abdul Kalam would ever doubt evolution (unless and until he states it in an official capacity to the public). What slander against our worthy President.