Once at the university, a conversation about the universe came between the professor and his students …
- If God created everything, then it means that He created evil, since it exists. And according to the principle that our deeds determine ourselves, it turns out that God is evil itself.
At that moment, everyone immediately fell silent. And the professor was very pleased with himself and proud of his proof. Once again, he proved that faith in God is a stupid illusion.
But then one clever student raised his hand and asked:
- Professor, does the cold exist?
- What a stupid question? Of course there is. Have you never felt cold?
All the students burst into laughter. After a while, when most of the students, laughing, calmed down, the young man continued:
- Dear professor, according to the laws of physics, cold does not exist at all. What we think of as cold is actually the absence of a certain amount of heat. Any object in the Universe can be studied for the presence of heat, or energy, and, accordingly, for the ability to transfer this energy.
On the Celsius scale, the temperature -273.15 ° C is absolute zero, i.e. complete lack of heat. In this case, all matter becomes inert and incapable of reacting.
Thus, there is no cold. It is a philosophical relative term that we have created to describe how we feel in the absence of a certain amount of heat.
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The student then continued:
- Professor, what do you say about darkness? She exists?
- Is there something wrong with the darkness as well? It seems to me that it certainly exists!
- Well, professor, and this time I'll have to upset you again. Darkness also does not exist. Darkness is really the absence of light. We can study light, but not darkness. We can use Newton's prism to decompose white light into many colors and study the different wavelengths of each color. But you cannot measure darkness. A ray of light can burst into the world of darkness and illuminate it, but not vice versa. Therefore, we measure the level of illumination, not the darkness of the space. Darkness is, again, a philosophical concept used to describe what happens when there is no light.
And finally, the student decided to dot the i's.
- Well, now let's see if evil really exists. Professor, does evil exist or not?
This time the professor thought for a long time at first, and then very uncertainly answered:
- Probably yes. Each of us sees evil every day. Cruelty between people, crime and violence … These examples are nothing more than a manifestation of evil.
- You are wrong again, professor, Evil does not exist either, or at least it does not exist for itself. Evil is simply a lack of goodness and care, which is what God is. Evil is similar in nature to darkness and cold. God did not create evil. Evil is the absence of faith or love, which exist as light and warmth. Evil is the result of the absence of Divine love in a person's heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or like the darkness that comes when there is no light.
This student's name is Albert Einstein.