As seen on facebook...

"The problem with stories on the internet involving Albert Einstein is that, like quotations, it's hard to determine their validity" -Albert Einstein

This is my response to one of those "Christian victory over the secularists" tales that came across my radar on facebook recently. It was about a student challenging a professor's claims that a good God couldn't have created a world with evil in it, and that God's existence cannot be proven by science...at the end of the story it claimed that student was Einstein, and aside from that assertion, I had a few other raised eyebrows as well, and so here's what I wrote in response:

Additionally, the professor was a very nice straw man in this story; a real secular professor would have an answer for the student's challenge about evolution (he would've surely claimed that evolution can be and is witnessed today, I mean, I'm no secular college science professor, yet I can easily point out that the current trend of bacterial mutation which is making antibiotics ineffective is an evolutionary process) and the existence of his brain (I mean, come on, how hard would've it been for him to say, "no, you can't see it now, but we can prove that it exists, quite easily."?) So in summary, it might give us Christians an oh-so-tantilizing (yet very sinful) sense of "yay us; secularists suck" to read this sort of thing, but really, if you want to pick a fight with a secular professor or witness someone else doing it, please actually go to a secular institution of higher learning to do so, and find a professor who's ready to argue. This is a cheap shot. That said, A) are we as Christians really called to pick fights in this manner? and B) I will say that secular scientists are far too quick to assume (and note that assumption is not a valid way to prove a scientific theory) that there is no physical evidence of the existence of God...this assumption requires denying the validity of many well-known historical accounts, after all, in addition to many more contemporary testimonies...and additionally, the scientific method is flawed at its core for only allowing input from 5 senses to be considered valid (as there are many reasons to believe in the presence of more than 5 "senses"...hey, might as well throw a bit of my personal experience in as evidence for that: we got in an accident (going 70 mph) on the freeway and everyone came out unharmed, and though Christians jump up and down and call that a miracle, scientists do not, however, that isn't my evidence. My evidence is that when a person in the car called her mom to tell her that there had been an accident, her mom already knew...bare minimum concrete evidence of a 6th sense for the scientific community, obvious evidence of the supernatural for Christians (yes, by faith).