Excerpt from Ada Brownell's book Imagine the Future You
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IMAGINE OUTDATED TEXTBOOKS
By Ada Brownell
One psychology professor openly ridiculed Christians in one
of my university classes with more than seventy students. As the instructor
made sarcastic remarks about Christians in the news and preached his atheistic
ideas, I wondered why no one challenged him. One day I raised my hand.
“You said this
textbook will be outdated in ten years,”
The questions flowed.
“Can you prove evolution? Isn’t it true you accept it by
faith? Are you aware that many scientists have thrown out missing links because
they couldn’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knowledge in them would soon be outdated; that he didn’t have all the answers;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?”
A few weeks later, I asked a science teacher if the first
and second laws of thermodynamics violated evolution. The teacher had opened
the class on the environment by 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 time you see an old barn with the roof
sagging and the walls falling in, you see demonstration of 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.
I interviewed a anthropologist professor, and we discussed changed in a fruit fly that can be observed. "What did you have then?" I asked.
A fruit fly, he admitted.
A Christian sociologist pointed out to me that any species where changes have been observed is still the same species.
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.”
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