USE
YOUR OWN DIRT
An excerpt from Ada Brownell's (non-denominational) motivational Bible study for
youth
Imagine the Future
You
“You said this textbook will be outdated in
ten years,” I began. “So what you're teaching might not be true in ten years?”
The questions flowed.
“Can you prove evolution? Isn’t it
true you accept it by faith? Are you aware many scientists threw out missing
links because in the more than a century since Darwin they can’t find them? Did
you know scientists are even putting forth the idea that man might have fallen
from outer space?
“How did creation turn out so
perfectly without a Designer? Why aren’t monkeys turning into humans now?”
He admitted that, yes, the
textbooks and the theories and knowledge in them would soon be outdated; that
he didn’t have all the answers; and, “Yes, we do accept some things by faith.
But when something is universally accepted, we treat it as fact.”
I should have asked, “Then
because the God of creation and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ are
universally accepted, that should be treated as fact?”
Although I accept that many
Christians believe the theory with God starting the process, a few weeks later,
I asked a science professor if the laws of thermodynamics violate evolution.
The teacher had opened the class on the environment stating everything would be
based on evolution.
No more than thirty-five pages
into the text, Living in the Environment,
by G. Tyler Miller Jr., the class was studying the law of energy degradation,
also known as the second law of thermodynamics. The law states that matter, if
left to itself and undergoing physical or chemical changes, will always change
in the direction of decreased order and decreased energy content. The
entire universe obeys this law, and this includes every chemical reaction.
In words plain and simple, the
law means anything left to itself will slowly fall apart. Every old barn with
the roof sagging and the walls falling in demonstrates this law. Despite
galaxies thought to be expanding (are they expanding, or are we increasing our
knowledge?), scientists will tell you the entire universe is slowing down,
growing old, and, as the saying goes, is running out of steam.
The second energy law also tells
us energy tends to flow or change spontaneously from a compact and ordered form
to a dispersed and random, or disordered, form.
“No one has ever found a
violation of this law,” Miller states.[1]
When the teacher read that, I put
up my hand. “Isn’t evolution a violation of this law?”
In order for evolution to occur,
many complex chemical changes must take place, and they must all be in the
direction of increased order and energy to move from the simple to the
complex.
The teacher paused a moment,
cleared his throat, and said, “Well, evolution is the only violation.”
The theory of evolution also
violates the first law of thermodynamics, which simply says energy (or matter)
neither can be created nor destroyed.
A story goes that God and Satan
were having a discussion.
“I can do anything you can,”
Satan said, stretching his puny body so he looked taller.
God smiled. “OK. Make a man.”
Satan bent over and began
scraping up dirt.
God grabbed his shoulder. “Use
your own dirt.”
The link for the book: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001KJ2C06
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