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Energy
cannot be created or destroyed.
Mass
equals energy and energy equals mass.
This
is known as the Law of Conservation of energy.
All
the energy in the universe always remains exactly the same moment by moment,
regardless of what form it is in - matter, light, heat, etc.
Energy
is defined as "capacity for doing work"
We
see how energy is used in things which involve :
Mechanical
things,
Electrical
things,
Chemical
reactions,
Light
emitters,
Heat
emitters,
Sound
emitters, etc.
For
example, electrical energy makes a bell ring. The energy is now converted to
sound, heat and mechanical energy. Or, a match is struck and the original
mechanical energy is transformed into a chemical reaction, which produces heat,
light and chemical reactants (oxides etc)
In
all these energy systems, heat is produced, which is virtually never recovered
for further work. The end result of virtually all energy equations is unusable
heat energy.
The
first Law of Thermodynamics (Entropy)
is another way of stating the Conservation of energy. Energy can be transformed
into other forms of energy or even into matter, but no new energy is ever
produced. For example, it is impossible to make a machine which produces more
energy than it uses.
All
processes in the universe involve transformations of energy. Mechanical,
geological, biological, tidal, photosynthesis, digestion, speech, painting,
thinking, etc. Over time, all these processes use energy and produce heat.
The
theory of Evolution would require that, for the present universe to exist as it
is today, the First Law of thermodynamics would have to operate it the exact
opposite direction in the past. In other words, over time all systems produced
more energy than they lost. In practical terms, this would mean that stars
fuelled themselves to burn, spiral galaxies wound themselves up before
unwinding, and life started as highly complex and therafter began to
deteriorate. Matter, and therefore energy, would have had to simply appear,
without an origin.
But
the Bible says that God created the universe, and when He did this, he
started it fully powered, with all energy at its maximum,
all stars fully fuelled, all galaxies spinning at their maximum speed, and all
life at its most organised and perfect.
The
Bible describes this as "finished" -see Gen 2:1-3, Ex.20:11, Ex.
31:17, Psalm 33:6,9, Neh.9:6, 2Pet. 3:5, Heb. 4:3 and Heb. 4:10.
The
theory of the ‘Big Bang’ origin of the universe - a desperate attempt to
bypass creation - also flies in the face of this Law of Conservation of energy,
because it postulates that (without any supernatural help) the entire universe
appeared from nowhere and literally exploded into its present shape! Logically,
if matter and energy can appear like this in the past, it could happen at any
other time, in the present, anywhere, but of course it never has been seen to
happen because today the Law of Conservation of energy is accepted as operating
reliably everywhere. The energy/mass of the present universe is the sum total of
all the mass/energy which God originally created, and when He did this, He
arranged it in a balanced, ordered and beautiful way. A ‘Big Bang’ would
produce nothing but chaos, and it would totally contradict the First Law of
Thermodynamics.
The
second Law of Thermodynamics
states that all processes go towards a condition of greater probability. (Known
as entropy). This means, in practical terms, that all complex things are
gradually breaking down into simpler things, energy is being lost as heat, and
the whole universe is moving inexorably towards a point when there will be no
more useful energy left to do work. This is called the ‘Heat Death’ of the
universe.
Comets
disintegrate, satellite orbits slow down, (i.e. the rings of Saturn, and the
planetary moons are gradually collapsing inwards or spiralling away), the fuel
in the stars burns up, stars explode and disintegrate, radioactive substances
lose particles until they are reduced to their most basic level, living things
gradually age and finally die, and, in a more homely way, that brand new car in
the garage will eventually rust, crack, perish, fade and wear out. Entropy
increases all the time in an open system.
It
may appear that life has beaten entropy, since it looks as if a highly complex
organism appears out of increasing entropy. Life seems to be going the other
way, but this is only an illusion. Thanks to DNA the mechanics of life can, for
a short time, use the energy from the environment to survive, but eventually,
due to mutations and general disabilities increasing, all life forms finally
dissolve back to the disorganised materials they started as. ("Dust")
The
whole universe is subject to the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Yet
the evolutionary theory claims that, in the past, everything went the other way.
It is claimed that simple life gained more and more genetic information and
became more complex. Despite the fact that everything decays and ages and dies,
evolutionists insist that in the past things went the other way. They claim that
mutations and natural selection actually produced bigger, better, and stronger
forms of life, despite the fact that mutations are almost always harmful, and
natural selection has never done a thing for genetics except weed out the weaker
life forms from the stronger.
Because
no new information is ever added by natural selection, no species can
ever be anything but what it is. Information may be lost, but never gained - for
example the many dog breeds demonstrate the potential locked in the genes for
variety, but no new kind of animals has ever emerged because that would require
a mass of new genetic information, which never occurs.
Psalm
102:25, Is.51:6, Rom.8:20, 1Pet 1:24, Ecc.3:20 and Mat. 24:35.
So, because of these two Laws, Conservation of Energy and Entropy, the theory of evolution is the exact opposite to what is acknowledged today as correct science. The Bible, in the end, is correct, and the theory of evolution totally in error.