“Why I am Not an Evolutionist
…”
The Science
Lecture Class Handout
By Andy Carmichael ©
2003
Creation School Online
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13. The laws of science prove that there is a God
and they reveal His character
Laws of science :
a law of science is a basic, unchanging principle of the
natural physical world; a scientifically observed phenomenon
that has been, and still can be, subjected to very extensive
measurements and experimentation and has repeatedly proved
to be invariable throughout the known universe, no
matter who is conducting the experiment. Examples
of scientific laws are the law of gravity, the laws of
motion and the laws of thermodynamics. The theories of
evolution are not laws of science but are unproven,
philosophical theories of the religion of atheism promulgated
by many (but not all) scientists and philosophers.
The laws of science prove that there is a God who
is exactly as the Bible reveals.
·
The scientific law of biogenesis
The scientific law of biogenesis
was discovered and proved by the great French creationist
scientist, Louis Pasteur. This law of science states that
life can come only from life and so life cannot
spontaneously “arise”. Life can come only from pre-existing
life. So the first life on earth must have been created
by a living (and therefore personal), intelligent, supernatural
Being. No one has ever made new life from scratch in a
laboratory (and if they did it would prove intelligent
creation by people in a laboratory, not evolution !) Chemicals
and dirt can never come to life of their own accord,
no matter how much energy is added to them nor how much
time is available.
Time and energy work against
the theories of evolution. The more time there
is, the worse it is for evolutionists; and the
more energy, the worse it is for evolutionists
because of the scientific laws of thermodynamics.
·
The 1st Law of Thermodynamics (“the
law of conservation of mass / energy”) (“E = mc2
”)
“The sum total of energy
plus matter in a closed system is constant. Energy
and matter cannot be created or destroyed but can only
change form. There is no overall gain or loss in the sum
total of ‘energy plus matter’.”
This law of science means
of course that there is nothing in the universe (a closed
system) capable of bringing the universe into being because
energy and matter cannot be created by anything in the
universe ... Therefore the universe must have been created
by Someone outside the universe.
Apart from information, everything
that exists in the universe is some form of energy
(even matter is a form of energy) and everything
that happens in the universe is some form of energy
transfer. The three laws of thermodynamics are the
scientific laws that govern the relationship between heat
and work – they govern all transfers of energy and so
govern everything that has ever happened in the physical
universe :
“The process of evolution
requires energy in various forms, and thermodynamics is
the study of energy movement and transformation. The two
fields are clearly related. Scientific laws that govern
thermodynamics must also govern evolution.”
(Dr Emmett L. Williams,
PhD in metallurgical engineering, former Professor of
Physics at Bob Jones University, 1981 [58] )
·
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (“the law
of entropy”)
“In a closed or open
system, spontaneous processes lead to a decrease in
order. Energy moves to a lower potential, becoming less
available to do work. Things move in a direction from
order to chaos.”
In other words, things
fall apart ! This law of science means that if the
universe (a closed system) were infinitely old (i.e. without
beginning), the universe would now be in a state of complete
disorder and would have died the heat death that astronomers
predict. Since the universe is not currently in
a state of complete disorder, the universe must have
had a beginning a finite time ago – and this beginning
cannot have been very long ago as everything we see in
the universe is still in a state of high order and available
energy :
“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.”
(Isaac Asimov, evolutionist,
1970)
The second law of thermodynamics
is just as valid for open systems as it is for
closed systems :
“… there are no known violations
of the second law of thermodynamics. Ordinarily the second
law is stated for isolated systems, but the second law
applies equally well to open systems.”
(John Ross, scientist
from Harvard University, 1980 [59] )
The implications of the Second
Law of Thermodynamics have caused many evolutionists to
forsake the theories of evolution for scientific creation.
Even death is a manifestation of this law of science.
·
The 3rd Law of Thermodynamics
“Order is at a maximum
at absolute zero temperature. Adding energy (e.g.
raising the temperature) results in disorder.”
This law of science is the
reason you put your food in the fridge or freezer rather
than leaving it out in the warmer air. The 3rd
law of thermodynamics means that adding energy from the
sun (or any other energy source) cannot bring chemicals
to life in a hypothetical primeval soup – it can only
increase the disorder of these chemicals. Just
as a bull in a china shop adds a lot of energy to the
contents of the china shop, that increased energy results
in increased disorder – and the china figurines
do not somehow come to life. A bull in a china
shop adds undirected energy. What is needed to
create life is directed energy with information.
As the hypothetical “primeval soup” contains no information,
“primeval soup” is thus scientifically ruled out as the
precursor of life ...
No experimental or scientific
evidence has ever disproved any of the Laws of
Thermodynamics, which therefore remain some of the best
science that exists :
“There is no recorded experiment
in the history of science that contradicts the second
law or its corollaries …”
(G.N. Hatspoulous
and E.P. Gyftopoulos, physicists, 1970
[60] )
“It is probably no exaggeration
to claim that the laws of thermodynamics represent some
of the best science we have today. … In many decades of
careful observations, not a single departure from any
of these laws has ever been noted.”
(Dr Emmett L. Williams,
PhD in metallurgical engineering, former Professor of
Physics at Bob Jones University, 1981 [61] )
·
The Law of Cause and Effect
The law of cause and effect
follows directly from the laws of thermodynamics and states
that :
“Every effect must have
a cause. The effect cannot be greater, in size or in kind,
than the cause.”
This means firstly that
every effect we see in the physical space-time universe
must have had a cause, and we can therefore trace all
effects back to a First Cause. There must exist somewhere
outside of the physical space-time universe a First
Cause that brought the universe into being. Secondly,
this First Cause must be greater in size and in kind
than time, therefore the First Cause must be eternal
and must itself have had no origin or beginning in time.
Third, since space
stretches beyond the limits of human detection, the
First Cause of space must be greater than this,
and hence probably infinite. Fourth, the
universe contains a lot of energy – in the sun,
the stars, gravitational attraction, etc. The First Cause
of all the energy in the universe cannot be less than
the sum total of all the energy in the universe. So the
First Cause must be omnipotent.
Fifth, there is a
vast information content in the universe – the
intrinsic properties of matter and the genetic information
in all the varied animal and plant life we see, living
and extinct. The First Cause of all this information in
the universe must be greater in size and in kind than
all the information in the universe, therefore the
First Cause must be all-knowing or omniscient.
Sixth, we human beings have a personality and
volitional will. In order to create the effect of
personality in people, the First Cause must have personality.
The effect (human personality) cannot be greater in size
or in kind than the cause. Therefore human personality
cannot have come from some impersonal “cosmic Force” of
pantheism. Seventh, we (as human personalities)
are interested in other personalities and so it
is not unreasonable to suppose that the First Cause created
us so that He (a personal Creator) could have fellowship
with us and us with Him …
This is how far science will
take us. From here we must look into the Bible to find
out more about our Creator God. Yet this is exactly what
we see revealed in the Bible – the eternal, infinite,
omnipotent, omniscient, personal, caring, relational God
– Jesus Christ Himself – who is revealed in Genesis 1:1
and John 1:1-3 as creating all time, space, matter and
information by personally speaking it into existence 6,000
years ago :
If you just give scientists
enough time, they will finally catch up with the Bible
...
