"In the image of God, He created them..."

"In the image of God, He created them..."

Sunday, June 8, 2014

A Tale of Two World-Views

When it comes to the origin of the world, there are two world-views which dominate the mainstream scientific discussion. The first, Atheism, relies heavily on the macroevolutionary model. The other, Judeo-Christianity, leans on the idea that everything on this earth is the result of a literal six-day creation. However, one of these world-views has some fatal flaws.  

The foundation upon which Atheism sits, the macroevolutionary model, fails to reconcile itself with two important rules of science. The first states that in order for an idea to be scientifically valid, it must be both observable and repeatable. But when examined more closely, the macroevolutionary model is neither observable nor repeatable. When one asks a proponent of macroevolution for an observable example, he is given examples of microevolution instead and told that macroevolution requires units of time far too large to be observable. And, try as they might, no experiment has successfully recreated the processes of macroevolution. Despite it's wide and hearty acceptation, the macroevolutionary model fails to meet perhaps the most fundamental rule of science. 

The second rule of science that poses a problem for the foundation of Atheism is known as the rule of entropy. Webster's Dictionary defines entropy as "a measure of the degree of disorder in a substance or system: entropy always increases and available energy diminishes in a closed system". According to Classical Mechanics page 78, a closed system is a "physical system which doesn't exchange any matter with its surroundings, and isn't subject to any force whose source is external to the system." As macroevolutionists describe it, according to this definition, our world would be classified as a closed system. This would require our planet to move from an ordered state of existence to a disordered one. However, they claim the opposite to be true. They claim that our planet started out as infinitely disordered and over eons of (unobservable and unrepeatable) time, is becoming more ordered. Again, the foundation of Atheism requires the reversal of a fundamental rule of science. 

However, Christianity fits nicely within these rules of science. Christianity states that when God created our world, it was infinitely ordered. But, when man rejected God as the sustainer of that order, entropy began to increase; the perfect order with which God had created the planet, deteriorated. Even the lives of the people inhabiting the earth fell apart. But the gospel, or good news, is the fulfillment of the other rule of science which Atheism fails to satisfy: the creative power of God is both observable and repeatable. If man will yield and permit the creative power of God to work in his life, then that re-creation (creation repeated) will be observable as God restores man's life to one of order. 

And to top the cake: those who allow God to re-create their lives, will witness the physical re-creation of the physical world!

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