I was liking this until it came to the theistic argument and just fell on it face. There are so many problems here both the student and teacher should be embarrassed (if they were real). Let's take this point by point, starting with the second half.
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Originally Posted by Mugen
The student stands quietly for a moment, before asking a question of His own. "Professor, is there such thing as heat?"
"Yes," the professor replies. "There's heat."
"And is there such a thing as cold?"
"Yes, son, there's cold too."
"No sir, there isn't."
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Yes there is. We can observe heat and cold with our physical senses. Only the trulyfaithful would be deluded enough to deny that heat exists based on their faith in Jesus over what their own skin tells them when they touch a hot pan.
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The professor turns to face the student, obviously interested. The room suddenly becomes very quiet. The student begins to explain. "You can have lots of heat, even more heat, super-heat, mega-heat, unlimited heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat, but we don't have anything called 'cold'. We can hit up to 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 the lowest -458 degrees."
"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 (-458 F) is the total absence of heat. 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."
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Temperature measures the molecular motion of a given substance. Cold is the absence of heat, I agree. That doesn't mean that it doesn't exist and certanly that heat doesn't exist. Cold as an absolute is the state of nonmotion but anything other than absolute zero is a lesser degree of motion. If I say "it is a cold day out today" I am making a meaningful statement because I am comparing the weather to my previous eerience with hot and cold. This "absense" of motion exists in its own right then from our perspective, and nothing here requires that we slower than -458 degrees (no motion). That is just a nonsequitor.
I will continue the rest of my critique in the following post as I went over the allowed character limit.