Dear Parishioners,
From time to time, you hear people denying the existence of God. They say, “If God is the is the creator of all things, why did he create evil?” In a book entitled God vs Science, the author answers this way. He begins by talking about heat and cold, and asks the atheistic professor, who has been questioning God’s greatness, “Professor is there such a thing as heat?” The professor answers, “Yes.” “And is there such a thing as cold?” Again, the professor answers “Yes” to which the student answers, “No sir there isn’t.” The student explains “You can have lots of heat, even more heat, super heat, mega heat, unlimited heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat, but we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit up to 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 the lowest 458 degrees.
The student then does the same thing with light and darkness to show that darkness doesn’t exist by itself; it is the absence of light.
Finally, the student asks “Now, sir, is there such a thing as evil?” The professor answers “Yes” and then refers to the news saying that you read and hear about all the crimes reported. To this the student replied “Evil does not exist or at least it doesn’t 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 had nothing to say and sat down.
Fr. Carl
P.S.: The student’s name was Albert Einstein.
