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 (-460F) 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 Einstein

In the interest of accuracy I feel compelled to point out that there is almost no chance that that actually happened.  For one thing it's been booted about with a dozen different names as the student, and for another Einstein repeatedly insisted that he did not believe in a God who in any way interfered (in the descriptive rather than pejorative sense of the word) with life, let alone an individual person - i.e., he flatly denied that he could believe in a God who "loved" in the sense we think of.  To Einstein "God" seemed to be pretty much synonymous with mystery, those things that we can't understand, but not an anthropomorphized "him" (or even her).

From the horse's own mouth...

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. [Albert Einstein, 1954, from Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press

that's fascinating indeed Rondele. using the bowling ball on the trampoline is unique thought, I don't get it wholly, but will think about it.one of those seed thoughts.

I know from a psychological viewpoint of the human who is being here in linear time, we do repeat patterns of behavior as well as our verbiage to one another. but as we speed up our vibes we tend to say something which seems "new." somebody may have thought of it before us but to us it's "new" to us.

thats fine Cricket. I don't care if Einstein really said it or not, I was just interested in the content of the article.
I don't care if JC is the spirit of the Course either..it's just the content and intention of anything I read which I like to share.

oh its a pet peeve..I don't get spammed by Christians but I don't like getting spammed by how to enlarge certain body parts and almost every day I get a little ticked off with people in other countries want to give me their inheritance after I give them my bank account #.  the world is full of things like this I just noticed.

I wouldn't even mind the "enlarge body parts" spams so much if they could just settle on which set of body parts I own!