by Ken Alexander

Created on: April 21, 2008

THE EXISTENCE OF GOD AND THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS

The only way to "prove" the existence of God and His creation, whether compatible or not with the second law of thermodynamics, is through the Word of God. However, the Bible is not capable of intellectual, scientific interpretation. It reflects the world of spirit, which is not able to be seen by the natural eye. the bible is not science book, able to be comprehended by the rational thinking method used by scientists. By definition it can only be understood by Divine revelation.

"God is [a] spirit and those who worship [relate to] Him must do so in Spirit" (Gospel of John 4:24). Further, matters of spirit are deemed foolish by the natural man. "But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one (Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, 1 Corinthians 2:14-15).

And: "the mindis hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so;" (Epistle to Romans 8:7).

Having said all of this, you may say that there is no way to prove scientifically the existence of God at all, let alone compare His existence with the laws of thermodynamics. However, we shall see that the Bible pronounces both laws as emmenetdly compatible.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics is defined as : "an expression of the universal law of increasing entropy, stating that the entropy of an isolated system which is not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium" (Encarta). Entropy is defined (Webster's) as: "a measure of the unavailable energy in a thermodynamic system".

Thermodynamics is essentially a measure of heat and the fact that left to its own devices will eventually reach the temperature of its surroundings. An example is placing a cup of coffee hotter than its environment on a table and left to sit. Eventually the liquid will go from hot to the same temperature as its surroundings. This principle was put to use in the development of steam engine motors in the 1800s.

Entropy and the second law are described generally, to the layman, as: creation tends toward disorder rather that order. It takes energy input to create order from disorder and but if creation is left to itself, a state of order will be reached naturally but will lack any energy. It will

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