Thursday, April 23, 2009

Creation, Causality, and The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Albert Einstein

Started thinking about the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics which is basically the law of Entropy. A working definition of this 2nd Law and essentially entropy is that something left to it's own devices will move towards disorder.

For instance, ice cream melts, things get dirty, iron rusts, apples oxidize...

Another example would be, from wikipedia, that states the following, "the second law implies that heat does not spontaneously flow from a cold material to a hot material, but it allows heat to flow from a hot material to a cold material. Roughly speaking, the second law says that in an isolated system, concentrated energy disperses over time, and consequently less concentrated energy is available to do useful work.

So from a creation standpoint and from a person who believes in The Carpenter of Creation, a Creator God, how could the universe be created from random chance?

In the context of entropy and the second law of thermodynamics, how could order, the order and detail of the universe, be created from disorder. The only way ice cream can be frozen again is for some outside force, be it a human, to act upon it...namely placing it back into the freezer. In order for the stability and complexity of the universe to be created and remain in existence is to have The One and Only Creator God.

Whether you believe in The Creator God or not, you still have to come up with some explanation on causality...what caused the creation of the oxygen we breath, our hearts to beat, our minds that think, the grass that grows, the seasons that change? Actually, believing in some other way to explain the creation and existence of life, takes more faith than believing in God...

As a future doctor, God-Willing, I will use science, not avoid science, to strengthen my beliefs that, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1.1

2 comments:

Jeff said...

Incredible post! Great looking blog! you're still a nerd!

Element said...

Jeff

Thx for the comments! Especially the nerd part! Praise God for you goober!