Is God all good?
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Started by prettyboi04
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Dec 2007
The following is supposedly an actual question given on a University of Toronto chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.
Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs
heat)?
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.
One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different Religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.
This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
So which is it?
If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you, and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2 must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct...leaving only Heaven thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God."
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prettyboi04 wrote:My life doesn't belong to me? How do you figure that? And just because you take the bible blindly doesn't mean that I am obligated to do the same--just because you have abdicated your mind doesn't mean I will. So far, you haven't provided ONE SHRED OF EVIDENCE to support the existence of heaven or hell, and yet you insist that your faith is the truth. You're going to have to do better than that if you want to convince me of the veracity of your claims. You're making claims, but not backing them up. How do you know hell exists? How do you know heaven exists? Do you have live video footage of your journey there? How do you know that the bible is right about it? WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE? I don't think everything in the bible is true. I doubt that some god magically created humans from dust, I seriously doubt that a serpent "talked" to a human being, I doubt that Jesus flew up into the sky on a pack of clouds, etc. These are major claims that need major evidence to substantiate them, and so far you have done nothing to help your case. And I don't believe in Adam and Eve because I haven't seen any evidence that they really existed, and plus I don't believe in literal genesis creationism. It just sounds like a bunch of fairytales. Sorry for the choppy English, I don't really feel like being eloquent right now, I'm studying for a HumBio midterm.
