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I remembered reading this and a recent comment reminded me so I dug it up. I thought it was interesting but certainly dramatized. The e-mail claimed that Einstein was the student, I'm not sure if he was or not. I rather liked the analogy though.


The university professor challenged his students with this
question: "Did God create everything that exists?"

A student bravely replied "Yes, he did!"

"God created everything?" the professor persisted.

"Yes, sir," the student replied.

The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created
evil since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works
define who we are, then God is evil."

The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the
students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question,
professor?"

"Of course," replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"

The professor replied, "Of course it exists. Have you never been
cold?"

The 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
ofheat. 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 (-460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat. 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."

The professor was silent, as was the entire class.

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 every day. It is in the daily example 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', It's like the cold
that comes when there is no heat
or the darkness that comes when there is no light."