Einstein - Good & Evil

Has anyone else ever read this?  I found it and I'm wondering if it's really true.... 

 

 Did God create everything that exists? Does evil exist? Did God create evil?

 

 A University professor at a well known institution of higher learning

 challenged his students with this question. "Did God create everything that

 exists?" A student bravely replied, "Yes he did!"

 

 "God created everything?" The professor asked.

  

 "Yes sir, he certainly did," the student replied.

  

 The professor answered, "If God created everything; then God created evil.

 And, since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works

 define who we are, then we can assume God is evil."

  

The student became quiet and did not answer the professor's

hypothetical definition. The professor, quite pleased with himself,

boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian

faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said, "May I ask you a question,

professor?" "Of course", replied the professor. The student stood up

and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"

  

"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never

been cold?" The other 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

of heat. 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 F) is the total absence of heat; and all matter

becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. 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."

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 everyday. It is in the daily examples 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'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 sat down.

  

The young man's name -- Albert Einstein