Assalaamu 'alaikum wr. wb.
hehehe....
Menarik sekali ilustrasi dari pak Bimo tersebut. Disitu diberikan cara
pandang yang baru mengenai teori bahwa semua hal berpasangan. Bahwa
tidak semua pasangan tersebut adalah exist dan sejajar, melainkan kadang
hanya untuk memberikan definisi bahasa mengenai tidak adanya unsur
tertentu. Kalau kita meyakini penjelasan murid tersebut maka seharusnya
kita menarik kesimpulan bahwa Tuhan tidak menciptakan keburukan.
Murid tersebut menjelaskan bahwa kegelapan tidak exist, kegelapan adalah
kata-kata yang diberikan pada suatu keadaan tanpa cahaya sama sekali.
Cahaya memiliki ukuran tertentu, kegelapan tidak memilikinya. Gelap
bukanlah lawan dari Terang dalam sense sejajar seakan kita bisa
menambahkan unsur Gelap dan menambah unsur Terang secara bersamaan
seperti kita bisa menambahkan Kopi (untuk rasa pahit) dan menambahkan
Gula (untuk rasa pahit) ke dalam air. Gelap adalah keadaan tanpa Terang.
Demikian pula Tuhan hanya memberikan Cahaya Kebenaran, manusia yang
menutup dirinya dari Cahaya Kebenaran itulah yang menjadi Keburukan.
Kebaikan dan Keburukan bukanlah hal yang sejajar. Melainkan mestinya
Keburukan adalah keadaan tanpa adanya Kebaikan. Keburukan itu bukan
sesuatu yang exist. :-) Jadi yang exist hanya cahaya Tuhan, Tuhan tidak
menambahkan kegelapan, melainkan makhluknya yang menolak cahaya Tuhan
disebut keadaan kegelapan. Tuhan tidak memiliki pasangan yang exist.
Sehingga Kebenaran, Kebaikan juga tidak memiliki pasangan yang exist.
:-)
Jadi barangkali untuk menjawab puisinya pak Hendra Nur Arifin "Darimana
Keburukan berasal?":
"Kebenaran datangnya dari Tuhan" -- benar
"Kejahatan juga datangnya dari Tuhan" -- salah
"Kejahatan datangnya semata-mata dari makhluk-Nya" -- benar dalam sense
bahwa makhluk-Nya tidak mau menerima seluruh cahaya Tuhan dan menutup
dirinya sehingga ada sebagian yang rada gelap :-) Meski sebenarnya unsur
Kejahatan itu tidak exist, melainkan hanya untuk menunjukkan tidak
adanya Cahaya kebenaran. :-)
Wassalaamu 'alaikum wr. wb.
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>From: Bimo Pradono[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, 5 April 1999 10:26
>To: Tasawuf
>Subject: [Tasawuf] Science vs Religion
>
>Ass. wr.wb
>
>Pagi ini saya menemukan posting berikut di alt.culture.indonesia.
>Bagaimana pendapat teman-teman, kepada siapa kita harus berpihak?
>
>Wass. wr wb.
>Bimo
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>Science vs Religion
>
>"Professing to be wise, they became fools..."
>
>"LET ME EXPLAIN THE problem science has with Jesus Christ." The
>atheist professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then asks
>one of his new students to stand. "You're a Christian, aren't you,
>son?"
>"Yes, sir."
>"So you believe in God?"
>"Absolutely."
>"Is God good?"
>"Sure! God's good."
>"Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?"
>"Yes."
>"Are you good or evil?"
>"The Bible says I'm evil."
>The professor grins knowingly. "Ahh! THE BIBLE!" He considers for a
>moment. "Here's one for you. Let's say there's a sick person over here
>and you can cure him. You can do it. Would you help them?
>Would you try?"
>"Yes sir, I would."
>"So you're good...!"
>"I wouldn't say that."
>"Why not say that? You would help a sick and maimed person if you
>could... in fact most of us would if we could... God doesn't.
>[No answer.]
>"He doesn't, does he? My brother was a Christian who died of cancer
>even though he prayed to Jesus to heal him. How is this Jesus good?
>Hmmm? Can you answer that one?"
>[No answer]
>The elderly man is sympathetic. "No, you can't, can you?" He takes a
>sip of water from a glass on his desk to give the student time to
>relax. In philosophy, you have to go easy with the new ones. "Let's
>start again, young fella."
>"Is God good?"
>"Er... Yes."
>"Is Satan good?"
>"No."
>"Where does Satan come from?" The student falters.
>"From... God..."
>"That's right. God made Satan, didn't he?" The elderly man runs his
>bony fingers through his thinning hair and turns to the smirking,
>student audience. "I think we're going to have a lot of fun this
>semester, ladies and gentlemen." He turns back to the Christian.
>"Tell me, son. Is there evil in this world?"
>"Yes, sir."
>"Evil's everywhere, isn't it? Did God make everything?"
>"Yes."
>"Who created evil?
>[No answer]
>"Is there sickness in this world? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness. All
>the terrible things - do they exist in this world? " The student
>squirms on his feet.
>"Yes."
>"Who created them?"
>[No answer]
>The professor suddenly shouts at his student.
>"WHO CREATED THEM? TELL ME, PLEASE!" The professor closes in for the
>kill and climbs into the Christian's face. In a still small voice:
>"God created all evil, didn't He, son?"
>[No answer]
>The student tries to hold the steady, experienced gaze and fails.
>Suddenly the lecturer breaks away to pace the front of the classroom
>like an aging panther. The class is mesmerized. "Tell me," he
>continues, "How is it that this God is good if He created all evil
>throughout all time?"
>The professor swishes his arms around to encompass the wickedness of
>the world. "All the hatred, the brutality, all the pain, all the
>torture, all the death and ugliness and all the suffering created by
>this good God is all over the world, isn't it, young man?"
>[No answer]
>"Don't you see it all over the place? Huh?"
>Pause.
>"Don't you?" The professor leans into the student's face again and
>whispers, "Is God good?"
>[No answer]
>"Do you believe in Jesus Christ, son?"
>The student's voice betrays him and cracks. "Yes, professor. I do."
>The old man shakes his head sadly. "Science says you have five senses
>you use to identify and observe the world around you. Have you? "
>"No, sir. I've never seen Him."
>"Then tell us if you've ever heard your Jesus?"
>"No, sir. I have not."
>"Have you ever felt your Jesus, tasted your Jesus or smelt your
>Jesus... in fact, do you have any sensory perception of your God
>whatsoever?"
>[No answer]
>"Answer me, please."
>"No, sir, I'm afraid I haven't."
>"You're AFRAID... you haven't?"
>"No, sir."
>"Yet you still believe in him?"
>"...yes..."
>"That takes FAITH!" The professor smiles sagely at the underling.
>"According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol,
>science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
>Where is your God now?"
>[The student doesn't answer]
>"Sit down, please."
>The Christian sits...Defeated. Another Christian raises his hand.
>"Professor, may I address the class?"
>The professor turns and smiles. "Ah, another Christian in the
>vanguard! Come, come, young man. Speak some proper wisdom to the
>gathering."
>The Christian looks around the room.
>"Some interesting points you are making, sir. Now I've got a question
>for you. Is there such thing as heat?"
>"Yes," the professor replies. "There's heat."
>"Is there such a thing as cold?"
>"Yes, son, there's cold too."
>"No, sir, there isn't."
>The professor's grin freezes. The room suddenly goes very cold. The
>second Christian continues. "You can have lots of heat, even more
>heat, super-heat, mega-heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat but
>we don't have anything called 'cold'. We can hit 458 degrees below
>zero, which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There
>is no such thing as cold, otherwise we would be able to go colder than
>458 -- You see, sir, cold is only a word we use to describe the
>absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat we can measure in
>thermal units because heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of
>heat, sir, just the absence of it."
>Silence. A pin drops somewhere in the classroom.
>"Is there such a thing as darkness, professor?"
>"That's a dumb question, son. What is night if it isn't darkness? What
>are you getting at...?"
>"So you say there is such a thing as darkness?"
>"Yes..."
>"You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something, it is the absence
>of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light,
>flashing light but if you have no light constantly you have nothing
>and it's called darkness, isn't it? That's the meaning we use to
>define the word. In reality, Darkness isn't. If it were, you would be
>able to make darkness darker and give me a jar of it. Can you...give
>me a jar of darker darkness, professor?"
>Despite himself, the professor smiles at the young effrontery before
>him. This will indeed be a good semester. "Would you mind telling us
>what your point is, young man?"
>"Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical premise if flawed to
>start with and so your conclusion must be in error...."
>The professor goes toxic. "Flawed...? How dare you...!""
>"Sir, may I explain what I mean?"
>The class is all ears.
>"Explain... oh, explain..." The professor makes an admirable effort to
>regain control. Suddenly he is affability itself. He waves his hand to
>silence the class, for the student to continue.
>"You are working on the premise of duality," the Christian explains.
>"That for example there is life and then there's death; a good God and
>a bad God.
>You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we
>can measure. Sir, science cannot even explain a thought. It uses
>electricity and magnetism but has never seen, much less fully
>understood them. To view death as the opposite of life is to be
>ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.
>Death is not the opposite of life, merely the absence of it."
>The young man holds up a newspaper he takes from the desk of a
>neighbor who has been reading it. "Here is one of the most disgusting
>tabloids this country hosts, professor. Is there such a thing as
>immorality?"
>"Of course there is, now look..."
>"Wrong again, sir. You see, immorality is merely the absence of
>morality. Is there such thing as injustice? No. Injustice is the
>absence of justice. Is there such a thing as evil?"
>The Christian pauses.
>"Isn't evil the absence of good?"
>The professor's face has turned an alarming color. He is so angry he
>is temporarily speechless.
>The Christian continues. "If there is evil in the world, professor,
>and we all agree there is, then God, if he exists, must be
>accomplishing a work through the agency of evil. What is that work,
>God is accomplishing?
>The Bible tells us it is to see if each one of us will, of our own
>free will, choose good over evil."
>The professor bridles. "As a philosophical scientist, I don't view
>this matter as having anything to do with any choice; as a realist, I
>absolutely do not recognize the concept of God or any other
>theological factor as being part of the world equation because God is
>not observable."
>"I would have thought that the absence of God's moral code in this
>world is probably one of the most observable phenomena going," the
>Christian replies.
>"Newspapers make billions of dollars reporting it every week! Tell me,
>professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a
>monkey?"
>"If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, young man,
>yes, of course I do."
>"Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?"
>The professor makes a sucking sound with his teeth and gives his
>student a silent, stony stare.
>"Professor. Since no-one has ever observed the process of evolution at
>work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor,
>are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you now not a scientist,
>but a priest?"
>"I'll overlook your impudence in the light of our philosophical
>discussion. Now, have you quite finished?" the professor hisses.
>"So you don't accept God's moral code to do what is righteous?"
>"I believe in what is - that's science!"
>"Ahh! SCIENCE!" the student's face splits into a grin. "Sir, you
>rightly state that science is the study of observed phenomena. Science
>too is a premise which is flawed..."
>"SCIENCE IS FLAWED..?" the professor splutters.
>The class is in uproar.
>The Christian remains standing until the commotion has subsided. "To
>continue the point you were making earlier to the other student, may I
>give you an example of what I mean?"
>The professor wisely keeps silent.
>The Christian looks around the room. "Is there anyone in the class
>whohas ever seen the professor's brain?"
>The class breaks out in laughter.
>The Christian points towards his elderly, crumbling tutor. "Is there
>anyone here who has ever heard the professor's brain... felt the
>professor's brain, touched or smelt the professor's brain?" No one
>appears to have done so. The Christian shakes his head sadly. "It
>appears no one here has had any sensory perception of the professor's
>brain whatsoever. Well, according to the rules of empirical, stable,
>demonstrable protocol, science, I DECLARE that the professor has no
>brain."
>The class is in chaos.
>The Christian sits... Because that is what a chair is for.
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