Evolution versus Thermodynamics

Evolution and Thermodynamics will not be debated here. I quit. That’s not the issue.

There are multiple Internet sites continually arguing evolution and the second law of thermodynamics. Here is one if you want to debate it: http://www.trueorigin.org/steiger.asp

Or ask Stan Guthrie. “If evolution, messy and circuitous as it appears, is true, then God is more mysterious than I imagined – but no less God.” (Stan Guthrie, Senior Associate Editor of Christianity Today, March, 2007.)

Maybe call Duane Gish. “Of all the statements that have been made with respect to theories on the origin of life, the statement that the Second Law of Thermodynamics poses no problem for an evolutionary origin of life is the most absurd… The operation of natural processes on which the Second Law of Thermodynamics is based is alone sufficient, therefore, to preclude the spontaneous evolutionary origin of the immense biological order required for the origin of life.” (Duane Gish, Ph.D. in biochemistry from University of California at Berkeley)

Or read Lincoln Barnett: “The universe is thus progressing toward an ultimate ‘heat death’* or, as it is technically defined, a condition of ‘maximum entropy’ . . And there is no way of avoiding this destiny. For the fateful principle known as the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which stands today as the principal pillar of classical physics left intact by the march of science, proclaims that the fundamental processes of nature are irreversible. Nature moves only one way.” (Lincoln Barnett, The Universe and Dr. Einstein (1957), pp. 102-103.)

“Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and *the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.” 2 Peter 3:11-13

The Truth issue is about love, morality, ethical behavior and personal accountability. It is not about “religion”, and it is not about endless arguments over subatomic particles and their inherent “force”, the fossil record, the age of the earth, or the second law of thermodynamics. The truth is about the revelation of Jesus Christ. When research for the source of the mysterious “force” of electricity in the nuclei of atoms, of which all matter is made, leads to a Creator – they won’t go there. When the amazing complexity of the design of a single cell points to God – they refuse to acknowledge it. Man wants to be in charge and not accountable for following his own selfish inner desires.

“For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.” 2 Tim. 4:3-4

Let’s cut to the chase: God is real. He means what He says and says what He means. There is a hell and there is a Heaven and each of us will be accountable**. On the other hand you could place your bet on a “100 quintillionth of a 1% chance” (Richard Dawkins) there is no God.

[1]The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
[2] Day to day pours out speech,
and night to night reveals knowledge.
[3] There is no speech, nor are there words,
whose voice is not heard.
[4] Their measuring line goes out through all the earth,
and their words to the end of the world.
In them he has set a tent for the sun. Psalm 19

You can bet your soul that God did not say “It would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.” Mark 9:42-44

“So then each of us **will give an account of himself to God.” Romans 14.12

I pray you won’t take the chance. There is a way back from the edge of destruction.

“I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life” John 14:6

Ask me about the Life.

 

We See But We Are Blind!

“They see without seeing.” Matthew 13:13

“We prefer mindless, moral-less, loveless theories of naturalistic evolution to the glory of God. Oh, how deep is our corruption! This is absolutely tragic.” -John Piper in When I Don’t Desire God.

To use the phrase coined by G.K. Chesterton, in his book Orthodoxy, we have engaged in “elephantine adventures in the pursuit of the obvious”, staking our souls on a 100 quintillionth of 1% chance there is no God – to use atheist Richard Dawkins’ odds.

How logical is that?

“What can be known about God is plain to them, for God himself made it plain.” Romans 1:19

 

Intelligent Design II

“The consequences of rejecting evolution sends them directly into the Face of God. They would no longer be free to to follow their inner desires and accountability must be now faced.” – Dr. Del Tackett

 

Intelligent Design I

It is intuitively obvious and readily apparent to even the most casual observer.

The classic example of the pocketwatch found in the woods is a great illustration. One might see a bird or a flower and say “Oh, it is a result of ‘biological evolution’ “. But if he found a pocketwatch would he say that it randomly evolved after taking it apart and seeing how all the parts work together to somehow work in synchronization with the rising and setting of the sun? Of course not. The pocketwatch is obviously a result of intelligent design.

Look at the universe. Were it random wouldn’t the stars be bouncing around and banging off each other like a set of billiard balls? There is clearly order.

How does blood clot? Well, I can tell you that it is a very complicated process and very difficult to explain. But I’ll try – here’s the short answer: about twelve very complicated chemical processes must ALL occur in an EXACT sequence – or you’ll bleed out with the slightest cut. Not only that, but this complicated process would have to have “evolved” INSTANTANEOUSLY. Otherwise, all life blood would have drained out at the slightest nick of the skin – in minutes! – during the period of waiting for clotting to evolve.

Then there’s the problem of explaining how blood could “evolve” over a long period of time. It is obvious that blood would have to have “evolved” INSTANTANEOUSLY. Otherwise, all life would have died of oxygen starvation – in minutes! – during the period of waiting for blood to “evolve”.

Uh oh. Now we have the problem of explaining how animal tissue needing oxygen to live “evolved” while “waiting” for blood to “evolve” which is waiting for clotting to “evolve”. And living animal tissue is incredibly more complex than a … pocketwatch.

“The heavens declare the glory of God,and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. “Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words,whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth,and their words to the end of the world. Psalm 19: 1-4

Intuively obvious, indeed!