BIBLICAL 1st & 2nd LAW OF
THERMODYNAMICS
Hebrews 4:3 ….although the works were finished from the
foundation of the world.
works were finished.
God’s works of creation were finished at the end of the six days of creation
week (Genesis 2:1-3). He is not still creating, as the theistic evolutionist
must allege. Thus the natural processes we can study in operation today are not
processes of creation; rather, they are processes of conservation and disintegration, as enunciated in the
universally applicable First and
Second Laws of Thermodynamics, respectively. Furthermore, the works of
creation were finished “from the foundation of the world,” not several billion
years later, after the supposed geological ages took place. In effect, these
completed works of creation actually constituted the foundation of the world.
The idea of evolution, if regarded as God’s method of creation is thus a
totally false doctrine and a destructive heresy.
Romans 1:20 “For the invisible things of him from the
creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are
made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:”
eternal power. It
is God’s eternal power which is evidenced in the cosmos, the power which
created it, not just the power which sustains it once it has been created. The
remarkable significance of this fact is illuminated by the modern discovery of
the two most basic and universal laws
of science, known technically as the first and second laws of
thermodynamics. More popularly, they can be understood,
respectively, as the law of
conservation in the quantity of all things God created, and the law of deterioration in the
quality (or organized complexity) of all things God created.
The first law
reflects the completion of creation in the past (Genesis 2:1-3), so that
nothing is now being either created or annihilated; creation is being
conserved.
The second law
reflects the subsequent curse on creation because of sin (Genesis 3:17-19;
Romans 8:20-22), so that everything now has a strong tendency to die—that is,
to disintegrate back to the “dust” (the basic elements) which God had created
in the beginning and from which He had made all the complex systems in the
cosmos.
Thus, the completed and sustained, yet deteriorating, cosmos
testifies powerfully to God’s eternal power. Since nothing is now being
created, the universe could not have created itself by the “natural” processes
which now function in it. Yet, since it is now disintegrating and dying, it
must have been created at some finite time in the past; otherwise, if it were
infinitely old, it would already be dead and completely disintegrated. If it
must have been created, yet could not have been created by the temporal power
contained in its existing processes, it must have been created by the eternal
power of a transcendent Creator. The creation, therefore, eloquently testifies
to the eternal power of its Creator. The only adequate Cause (by the scientific law of cause-and-effect)
to produce an infinite, unending, power-filled, intelligible universe
containing living creatures must be an infinite, eternal, omnipotent,
omniscient, living, personal God.
Romans 8:20
vanity. “Vanity”
is equivalent to “futility.” Because of sin, the creation was made to operate
under a law which specifies a universal process of decay and death. This law of morpholysis is recognized
by science as a basic principle pervading the whole universe. It is also called
the law of increasing entropy
(meaning turning inward) or the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Every system in the physical and biological worlds has a tendency to turn
inward and “feed” on itself to maintain its structure and activity, but this
simply causes it to run down, disintegrate and die, unless it somehow becomes
opened to outside sources of energy, information, food, etc. Even if it does
remain an open system, this internal tendency continues to act in opposition to
the incoming energy. Since even the latter will eventually be exhausted, the
whole creation is thus in bondage to this principle of futility, or
“in-vainness.” But since this law has been imposed by God, He also can remove
it, and so there still is “hope.”
Romans 8:21 ”Because
the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into
the glorious liberty of the children of God.”
corruption.
“Corruption” is equivalent to “decay,” and this is yet another way of stating
the entropy principle.
Everything tends to decay, running down from a created state of organized
complexity to one of randomness and disorganized chaos. This law is thus called
a “bondage;” the universe is enslaved by it, and there is no natural principle
available to supersede it. Such a law is clearly the exact converse of the
notion of evolution, which views the universe as gradually organizing itself
over long ages by natural processes into its present state of high complexity
and activity. The entropy law,
which is supported without exception by all observation and scientific study,
thus seems to stipulate that evolution on any significant scale is impossible.
It also explains the fact that it has never been observed to occur in the
present and the fact that there is no evidence it ever occurred in the past!
Romans 8:22 “For we
know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until
now.”
whole creation.
The reference to “the whole creation” indicates that the divine curse extends
through the entire created cosmos, not just to the earth. Scientific
observation has apparently confirmed this. That is, the law of entropy operates throughout the
cosmos. Since it was man’s sin that brought God’s curse on the ground—that is,
the very elements of the created earth, the “dust of the ground” (Genesis 2:7)
out of which all things were made by God—it may be that his sin had universal repercussions. On the
other hand, it may be that Satan’s sin, which took place in the angels’ domain
in the heavens, brought on the curse there.
groaneth and
travaileth. The creation is now travailing like a woman about to deliver
children. Its delivery into the glorious new age to come is thus associated
with the manifestation of the children of God.
Matthew 14:20, 25. “And
they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that
remained twelve baskets full.” “And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went
unto them, walking on the sea.”
were filled. To
feed five thousand men plus women and children from five loaves and two fishes
is obviously humanly impossible. Naturalistic skeptics have tried to explain
away this miracle as resulting from the example of sharing his lunch by one lad
(John 6:9), which supposedly stimulated others to share also. Such an
artificial explanation could hardly account for the twelve baskets full of
fragments after everyone was “filled!” This was nothing less than a mighty
miracle of creation. Setting aside His own created law of mass conservation
(i.e., no matter can be either created or annihilated, as implied by Genesis
1:31–2:3), Jesus supernaturally created a great amount of bread and meat, to
feed the multitude. This was well within His ability, as Creator of all things
in the beginning! Note John 1:1-3; Colossians 1:16; etc.
walking on the sea.
In a further evidence of His power as Creator, Jesus must have created a
special anti-gravity form of energy in order to walk on the sea, thus
suspending or superseding His created law of energy conservation (First Law of
Thermodynamics: no energy can be created or destroyed—only conserved).
Acts 3:21 “Whom the
heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God
hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.”
times of restitution.
“Restitution” is from a Greek word used only this one time in the New
Testament, though it is closely related to a word meaning “restore.” The
promise thus means that, when Christ comes again, He will restore all things to
their primeval perfection, before sin and the curse came into the world.
Compare Revelation 21:5; 22:3.
since the world began. Note that God’s prophets have been
prophesying the restoration of all things ever “since the world began,” not
just beginning some four billion years after the world began, as evolutionists
would allege. There is no Biblical basis whatever for the notion of vast ages
since creation. Compare Mark 10:6: Luke 1:70. It should be recognized that
there is no scientific proof that the world is older than the few thousand
years of recorded history. All such age calculations that yield vast eons of
time are based upon the premise of uniformitarianism,
which is the belief that everything has been uniform from the beginning of
time, and there has been no universal catastrophe such as the worldwide Flood.
This is an invalid assumption in light of the records of special creation and
the worldwide Flood in the days of Noah.
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