[jec41]

Evil is simply the absence of God.

Cute but not logically deducted or scientific. First the student uses science to prove darkness and cold do not exist. Lacking the scientific evidence to prove that evil does not exist he recites a philosophical deduction that can neither be proved or disproved which makes it opinion or speculation. Its called bait and switch. However the professor's argument was no better for he only presented a philosophical deducted proof which has been refuted by another philosophical deducted proof. It remains a philosophical debate and anyone schooled in the sciences and philosophy would or should detect the students error.

[xmission]

First the student uses science to prove darkness and cold do not exist. Lacking the scientific evidence to prove that evil does not exist he recites a philosophical deduction that can neither be proved or disproved which makes it opinion or speculation.

I agree that this old email isn't right for scientific argument, and I did try to say so. I do however believe that evil is the absence of GOD, and that the email does help to understand why GOD is not responsible for the evil of man.