"The first law of thermodynamics states that energy, the stuff of which the universe is made, can neither be created nor destroyed. Two conclusions follow: (1) the total energy in the universe remains constant; and (2) energy must be self-existent and eternalexactly what the Bible says about God. Is science promoting energy as "God"?
The second law of thermodynamics states that while total energy remains constant, usable energy and order continually decrease as entropy increases. Common sense tells us that all fires eventually burn out. Neither our sun nor the other stars could have been burning forever. There must have been a time when neither stars nor the energy of which they consist existed. Clearly, the universe had a beginning, as the Bible declares: "In the beginning..." (Gn 1:1).
The conflict between these two laws poses a serious problem for science. Energy could not have been here forever as the first law implies, or, according to the second, ages ago it would have reached the state of maximum entropy, but it hasn't. The contradiction can be resolved in only one way: since energy could not have been created by any means known to science, yet has not always existed, it must have been created by God.
Matter, life and intelligence could not arise spontaneously from nothing. Therefore, all that now exists was created either by a self-existent eternal energy, or by a self-existent eternal Person. The first choice is eliminated by the second law of thermodynamics, because energy itself and all things it produces deteriorate. Furthermore, whereas energy is physical, there is a demonstrable nonphysical dimension to human existence. Nor could energy, being impersonal, create personal beings such as man.
We are driven to the conclusion that some One always existed, an infinite Person without beginning or end, who is capable of creating out of nothing the entire universe and all the creatures in it, including man. Our finite minds cannot conceive of God always having existed. Yet we know He must exist eternally or nothing would exist. And He must be outside of time for a number of reasons, including human freedom of choice in spite of His foreknowledge, which we have shown in the past.
Science says the universe began with a "Big Bang." But what was the source of that energy? It could not have existed forever or (according to the second law) it would have reached maximum entropy before it "banged." Obviously the energy from which the universe is made came into existence simultaneously with the universe a finite number of years ago. It could not have arisen out of nothing by any natural process and thus its origin had to be supernatural. Accurately, the Bible says, "God said, Let there be..." (Gn 1:3,6,9,11,14,20, 24,26); "...the worlds were framed by the word of God..." (Heb 11:3a). That God made the uni-verse out of nothing is also clear: "...things that are seen were not made of things which do appear" (Heb 11:3b). It has taken science thousands of years to catch up with the Bible.
Did God create the universe in a sudden burst of energy? We don't know. We do know that a "Big Bang" could never produce the digitally organized database imprinted on the single cell (the size of the period at the end of this sentence) with which each human life begins. This immense store of self-replicating information (with enzymes that check for copy errors and correct them) directs the construction, operation and differentiation of tens of trillions of cells as different as those in the heart and hairan incredible feat which science can't even begin to unravel.
The written instructions are encoded so that only the proper protein (of which there are tens of thousands of types) can decipher it. Darwin knew nothing of DNA or the structure and operation of the cell, today's knowledge of which has relegated his theory of evolution to the trash heap of absurdities, where it belonged from the beginning. If the simplest cell were broken into its chemical components, the odds that they would ever come back together in the right way is 1 chance in 1 followed by 100,000,000,000 zerosand the human body has trillions of cells.
With a retina which solves in a fraction of a second complex equations that would occupy a supercomputer for 100 years, the human eye's 100 million light-sensitive cells send information through a million fibers of the optic nerve to the brain. We can't produce optical instruments that come even close to the human eye. A newly discovered starfish has more than 1,000 eyes, each with a lens at least ten times better than anything science has yet been able to constructand all evolved independently yet simultaneously by chance? Please!
The human brain, with its 100 billion nerve cells linked by 240,000 miles of nerve fibers and 100 trillion connections, storage capacity 1,000 times that of a Cray-2 supercomputer and operating at a thousand trillion computations per second, is even more incredible than the eye, whose optical impulses it translates into three-dimensional images to which it directs numerous parts of the body to react instantly. And all this was produced by a "Big Bang" plus chance, eons of time and survival of the fittest? But until they worked, the eye and brain could not aid in survivalthus the "evolution" it supposedly took to create this incredible optical/intelligence system produced millions of intermediate stages in the right succession by pure chance without any "survival of the fittest!" Yet in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, evolution continues to be promoted as fact by the media and taughtin fact mandatedin our schools!
Instead of a spontaneous "Big Bang" of previously nonexistent energy that suddenly created itself, the Bible introduces us to the Creator, a personal God who always existed and was able to make the universe out of nothing by speaking the word. Science and reason demand the very God the Bible presents.
In contrast to the pitiful gods of the world's religions which hold their followers in darkness, superstition and fear, the Bible describes God exactly as He must be: self-existent ("i am that i am" - Ex 3:14), eternal ("the eternal God is thy refuge" - Dt 33:27; "from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God" - Ps 90:2); and a personal Being who wills ("this is the will of God" - 1 Thes 4:3; 5:18; "by the will of God" - Eph 1:1; Col 1:1; 2 Tm 1:1; and many other verses), who thinks ("my thoughts are not your thoughts" Is 55:8), has personal emotions ("God is angry with the wicked every day" - Ps 7:11; "we love him, because he first loved us" - 1 Jn 4:19; "I was grieved with that generation" - Heb 3:10, etc.), and speaks ("the Lord spake" is found 144 times, "the word of the Lord" is found 258 times in Scripture, etc.).
Except for God's unique qualities (self-existence, omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, perfection, sinlessness, etc.) man reflects, though imperfectly, God's characteristics listed above. "God created man in his own image..." (Gn 1:27), but not physically, because God "is a Spirit" (Jn 4:24). Thus man must also be a spirit living in a physical body. There is no other explanation for man's intellectual abilities (to form conceptual ideas and express them in words, etc.) inasmuch as intelligence, thoughts, will, emotions, etc. are not physical but spiritual. That easily proven fact (which we touch upon in the following Q&A) involves serious consequences from which physical death provides no escape: "...it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" (Heb 9:27); "...the rich man also died, and was buried; and in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments..." (Lk 16:22,23). .."
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