(Continued from Pt. 1)
Famed scientist, science fiction writer, and big bang/evolutionary proponent Isaac Asimov put it this way:
Another way of stating the second law then is, “The universe is constantly getting more disorderly.” Viewed that way we can see the second law all about us. We have to work hard to straighten a room, but left to itself it becomes a mess again very quickly and very easily. Even if we never enter it, it becomes dusty and musty. How difficult to maintain houses, and machinery, and our own bodies in perfect working order; how easy to let them deteriorate. In fact, all we have to do is nothing, and everything deteriorates, collapses, breaks down, wears out, all by itself—and that is what the second law is all about.
But the crux of evolutionary theory is that things are gaining in complexity, simple life forms giving rise to more sophisticated ones, disorder giving rise to order. This flies in the face of the second law of thermodynamics. On this point alone the theory of evolution would have to be disallowed.
Evolutionists counter this argument by claiming that an energy source can reverse the second law. For example, an outside energy force such as a housekeeper can tidy a disorderly room. They point to the sun as the outside source of energy, and say over billions of years the sun’s energy would be like the busy housekeeper. Simple observation, however, would show that energy from the sun alone is not capable of creating life from something with no life, or complexity from simplicity.
Consider the sun shining on two seedlings: the one alive, the other dead. When equal amounts of water and nutrients are added to both, the live plant flourishes but the dead one decays. Energy from the sun is not enough to give rise to life. And as for the dead plant, it rots and disintegrates in accordance with the second law of thermodynamics.
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Just for FunGod is sitting in Heaven when a scientist says to Him, “God, we don’t need You anymore. Science has finally figured out a way to create life out of nothing. In other words, we can now do what You did in the beginning.”
“Oh, is that so? Tell Me,” God replies.
“Well,” says the scientist, “we can take plain dirt, form it into the likeness of You, and breathe life into it, thus creating man.”
“That’s very interesting. Show Me,” says God.
So the scientist bends down to the earth and starts to mold the soil into the shape of a man.
“No, no!” interrupts God. “Get your own dirt.”
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"NOT OF WORKS, LEST ANY MAN SHOULD BOAST!" (EPH.2:9).
"There's none righteous, no not one! … For by grace are ye saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God" (Rom.3:10; Eph.2:8). That principle is true of everything--including our service to the Lord!
Our service must not be self-works and self-effort! It has to be the Lord!--Otherwise it's self-righteousness, self-works and self-energy, what the Lord calls "a voluntary humility," sort of a self-made spirituality (Col.2:18). It's the Lord that gets the credit for it all!
It's just like Salvation; you can't work it up no matter how hard you try! There's nothing you can do to get it except just humble yourself and receive it by faith! There's no way you can get it except just by the grace of God, just a pure gift!--And that's what we have to recognize about works too. The Lord wants us to throw ourselves at the complete mercy of the Lord!--Just to give up on ourselves and depend on the Lord to the point where we have nothing left but God.
It's all the Lord!--We have almost nothing to do with it! This is what we need to learn: To let go and let God!--Amen? Lie back in His arms and let Him do it! Rest in the Lord!
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