God's Not Dead Page #3

At the end of it all,

I'm gonna have to

work like a dog

just to catch up

on my other classes.

You have described

your difficulties,

I don't know.

I just--I think of Jesus

as my friend.

I don't want

to disappoint him,

even if everyone

thinks I should.

See, to me,

he's not dead.

He's alive.

Bye.

Hiya, Tom Blanchard,

Metro City Auto.

Here's your keys.

Absolutely.

I'm giving you a car.

Sign here,

Thank you.

We'll come pick you up.

Thanks.

You're kidding.

What did you do?

Did you break it?

What?

Check and see

if it's still in gear.

No, it's in park.

Alright,

well, now it's not.

How soon can you

get us another car?

Well, not tonight.

It's already after 5:30.

Everyone's gone home

An audition?

And it's kind of

a dinner theatre thing.

Perhaps it's

gonna rain anyway.

Sometimes you

don't make any sense.

All the time.

And all the time?

God is good.

You're on with Marc.

It's me, dork,

your sister.

Oh, and this is about?

You really

should go see Mom.

She's not doing well.

She hasn't been

doing well for years.

That's why they

call it dementia.

Still, you

should go see her.

Claire said you haven't

been there in awhile.

Like it matters?

Besides, I just

bought her a new TV.

If she gives you the

right answer, I'll visit.

That's not fair.

Life's not fair.

I gotta go.

Say hi to Amy.

No, that's over.

What'd you do?

I'm sorry to hear that.

Well, that's

the way it goes.

Okay, ready to

get this started?

Seriously, you

have got to get a life.

Yeah, tell me about it.

Hey honey.

Oh, sorry,

the door was open.

I just let myself in.

- Hi.

- Hi.

I did.

I left it in the car.

It's in the car.

Don't worry about it.

You have a lot

on your plate.

So, you know, just--

thank you for helping

set up our dinner party.

Well, unless I'm wrong,

That's not true.

Vivian's a sociologist.

Look, I can't help it.

The instant

I get around you.

Really?

The first time I walked

into your classroom,

you were all

blood and thunder.

Why?

It was an A-minus.

Close enough.

Huh?

Who?

That carefree,

free-spirited girl

'Cause I miss her.

She has got a mom

who's failing,

she's sensing

time is passing by,

Reading, listening,

thinking.

You can hardly

call this thinking.

Yes, and you know

that I'm not.

Yeah, I know,

and I know

there's a lot of things

you don't want

to talk about,

so we don't

talk about them.

And louder, and soon

it will be deafening,

and I don't know

if I can put up with that.

- I know.

- Do you?

- Yeah.

Because we need

to be clear on this.

Which means

I don't get a mistress

turned itinerant rabbi

into our lives.

Look, I'm gonna

go freshen up.

Is this the same car?

Oh, no sir.

No, sir.

Same model,

different color.

The other one

was a Cabernet.

This is more

of a merlot.

You

know, lying's not good.

You know that, right?

Sir, I assure you this

is a different automobile.

Here, try it out.

Oh, Pretty good.

I'm up for review

mid-semester.

Well,

congratulations Jeffrey.

Anything else

on your plate?

Not really.

Feel like sharing?

Who's--well,

he's taken a challenge

to prove

the existence of God.

In your classroom?

- Yes.

- Silly boy.

- Freshman?

- Oh yeah.

Doesn't seem

quite fair to me.

Well, how's that?

He's inexperienced

in front of a room,

in your own field

of expertise.

Come on, Mina.

This is fun for me.

I gave him an out,

but no,no,no,

he wants to prove

that God isn't dead.

Look, I know I am

in the minority here,

but I actually

believe in God.

But I'm just saying--

Mina, I've asked

politely, okay?

Okay-

The coq au vin

is almost done.

Excellent.

To the dining room.

Cheers, everyone.

Mina, this wine is awful.

It's been cooked.

Talk about your

"Grapes of Wrath."

I locked it in the trunk

and when I got home

I forgot about it.

As Socrates put it

over 2,000 years ago,

"Gnothi seauton."

Looks like

it's Greek to her.

Oh, it's "Know

thyself," darling, know thyself.

You know,

if you'll all excuse me,

it's time for

the help to depart.

Sweetheart--

No pacemaker?

No.

I know it

sounds crazy, but I have to ask.

In our last class,

I was asked a question

that I couldn't answer.

As Professor Radisson

pointed out,

in which he says

the following:

"Because there is a law

such as gravity,

but three errors

of logic contained

and it all boils down

to circular reasoning.

Because the universe

needed to exist,

It's like this.

If I say to you

that I can prove

you'd probably

look at me strange

and say I haven't

proven anything.

And you'd be right,

because it needed

to create itself,

and then offers that

as an explanation

as to how

and why it was created,

"even when spoken

by famous scientists

"even though

the general public

assumes they are

statements of science."

Are you telling me

that you, a freshman,

No, what I'm saying

is that John Lennox,

But if you

can't bear to disagree

where he insists

philosophy is dead.

And if you're so sure

of Professor Hawking's

infallibility,

and philosophy

really is dead,

then well, there's really

no need for this class.

Except for when

my faith comes up,

then he becomes

verbally abusive.

Brilliant.

Handsome.

Yes.

And his attention

makes you feel special,

gives you a sense

of completeness.

Have you been

reading my diary?

Psychologists call it

the Cinderella complex.

Guys are capable

of the same thing.

It's just they don't

have a name for it.

To give you

a sense of self-worth

instead of

generating it internally.

Yeah, a lot

of people do, sure.

But, using romance

to shore up self-image

No.

So, if he's incapable

of mistakes,

then it follows that he

cares about you, right?

Right.

To the point

where God's only Son

if that's what

was necessary.

Well, if he

loves you that much,

who cares what

your boyfriend thinks?

But to the right person,

you'll mean everything.

Ladies and

gentlemen of the jury,

and that evolution

replaces God,

but evolution only

tells you what happens

once you have life.

Full of the right kind

of chemicals

and bingo,

a living something.

Came from that one

single, simple organism

Darwin uttered

his famous statement,

that scientists say

life has been around

as one 24-hour day,

in the space of

just about 9 seconds,

in the forms in which

they currently hold.

Not slowly and steadily

as Darwin predicted,

So, "nature does

not jump" becomes

"nature makes

a giant leap."

"'and let birds

fly above the earth

across the expanse

of the sky.'

"and every living

and moving thing

"with which

the water teems,

"according to its kind.

In other words,

creation happened

because God said

it should happen.

And even what looks,

to our eyes,

to be a blind,

unguided process

No, there's nobody.

Or what you don't

want to understand.

"If only you would open

the Scripture and read,

So says the

brave young freshman.

Job 12, verse 2.

"And full of trouble.

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