[Azred]

Unfortunately, I would have to give the poor student from Micah's post a "B". He hypothesizes that if souls exist then they must have mass; sadly, this is not always the case. Many things exist but have no mass. My next question to him would have been: rest mass or relativistic mass? Also, to speak of Hell expanding or contracting implies either some sort of volumetric limitation, since a limitless expanse may neither shrink nor expand. Besides, set theory/topology proves that you may slice apart the volume of a golf ball, throw away some of the volume, then reconstruct a volume the size of the Sun; to measure the expansion/contraction of Hell implies a measurable volume--a task I, personally, would not care to undertake.

hmmm....went a little of the deep end there for a sec. Oh, well.

Actually, on second thought I would grade based upon how convincing of an argument could be made, one way or the other. Also, how well does the student perform while defending the hypothesis? (um, yes, I have taught at university before).

then there was the existentialism professor who asked his students to prove that he didn't exist....