YouTube- Albert Einstein - Does Evil Exist.mp4

This is a great explanation for those who question if God created all and created Lucifer, turned Satan then He created evil. Darkness is the absence of light, cold is the absence of heat & evil is the absence of God.

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[jbperez808]

There is some possibility that this might have been a real episode when Einstein was a kid. But according to "Relatively Einstein", he abandoned his religious fervor after studying Kant around the age of 13.

For the simple-minded, the above exchange seems to be a clever one, but most people who know how to think more deeply are completely unimpressed with it.

[juanicole617]

@jbperez808 to be real...you do not have to be SIMPLE MINDED to believe this. If one believes in God and sees this, one would be impressed. Just because one believes in God does not mean they lack any intelligence. This was simply rude and undermining. You can believe or don't believe what you want but nonbelievers don't automatically qualify to be smarter because they don't believe in a higher power.

[Insomniac618]

"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. ...I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one." -Albert Einstein, 1954

[nazisucksass]

so basically this kid's argument revolves around ''evil is the absence of good''. However, when a person kills another person, this is not only the absence of good. It is evil by itself. I assume that my argument may not be universally valid, but in simple terms its enough to debunk what we just saw.

[ultimaterobloxian]

like a BOSS

[Jesscookie1]

why is the professer giving his opinion on religion in science class

[secretsauce007]

@juanicole617 I am a Catholic, and I am NOT impressed with the exchange in this video.

So when you write "If one believes in God, and sees this, one would be impressed," you are making a generalization about believers that jbperez did not make. As such, it is YOU who are turning this as an attack on anybody who believes in God, not jbperez (who said no such thing).

[secretsauce007]

For a trace of where this urban legend started, as well as a refutation of this simpleminded "proof" of God, see: urbanlegends.about.com/od/reli­gion/a/einstein_god.htm

[secretsauce007]

This story began in 1999 as a story about an unnamed university student humiliating his atheist professor. Then in 2004 the punchline that Einstein was that university student, was tacked on.

Now the university student has been replaced young-child Einstein?

Seriously, does the absence of any trace of honesty (by checking whether a story is actually TRUE before stealing the reputation of a great man) ... really make a good message for religion?

[guywthomson]

I'm pretty sure, as a professor of philosophy, as the original legend goes, he would have been fully aware of the Thomist and Augustinian explanations of evil and their weaknesses...

[DreamfallenOne]

@Insomniac618 OK, I agree with that. You shouldn't just slap a famous persons name on something to make it seem more credible and try to get people to believe it just off of that.

[Insomniac618]

@DreamfallenOne I agree wholeheartedly with that point actually. I should have just said that the problem with this video is that it knowingly lies to people in order to persuade them toward the producers' point of view, and uses the deceased to do so. Given that it was made by a fundamentalist christian group this seems hypocritical. If you can't persuade without lying to others, there's obviously a problem with your views.

[DreamfallenOne]

@Insomniac618 Hahaa, childlike indeed. Perhaps C.S. Lewis' most important piece of advice is to be childlike! Something being childlike does not make it wrong or foolish.