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DUCATIONAL
DIFYING
VANGELICAL
Presented
by
Dr Thomas J Kindell
Founder & President of Reasons for Faith Ministries, Inc.
“Be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is
within you” I Peter 3:15
IMPLICATIONS OF
THE LAWS
OF
THERMODYNAMICS
ORIGINS
An emotional question.
An unprovable question.
Approaching the question
properly.
Let’s agree to use fair rules.
“We take the side of science in spite of
the patent absurdity of some of its
constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill
many of its extravagant promises of
health and life, in spite of the tolerance of
the scientific community for
unsubstantiated just-so-stories, because
we have a prior commitment, a
commitment to materialism. It is not that
the methods and institutions of science
somehow compel us to accept a material
explanation of the phenomenal world,…
…but, on the contrary, that we are
forced by our a priori adherence to
material causes to create an apparatus
of investigation and set of concepts
that produce material explanations, no
matter how counter-intuitive, no matter
how mystifying to the uninitiated.
Moreover, that materialism is an
absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine
Foot in the door.”
Richard Lewontin, “Billions and Billions of Demons,” The New York
Review, January 9, 1997, p. 31
Definition - RELIGION
“A set of beliefs
concerning the cause,
nature, and purpose of
the universe.”
The Random House College Dictionary, 1982. Rev. ed.
Edited by Jess Stein, p. 1114
“[Evolution] is a general postulate
to which all theories, all
hypotheses, all systems must
henceforward bow and which they
must satisfy in order to be thinkable
and true. Evolution is a light which
illuminates all facts, a trajectory
which all lines of thought must
follow – that is what evolution is.”
P. T. de Chardin, as quoted by F. J. Ayala, Journal of Heredity 68:3-10, 1977
What happened to the classic
definition of science?
Science: The search for truth [whatever
that truth may be] through the scientific
method of repeated experimentation
and observation.
Science Redefined as Materialism: You
may search for truth – but only where
and how we tell you to. Only
materialistic explanations are allowed.
THE PROBLEM
Whenever you allow your
opponent to define the rules of
argument – you lose!
The First Rule
“I set the rules and you don’t!”
The Second Rule
“Heads, I win – Tails, you lose!”
CONCLUSION
The search for truth, for truth’s
own sake, is unimportant – the
only thing that matters is that a
materialist victory is assured
by controlling the definition of
“science” so that no matter
what – they have to win – by
definition.
It doesn’t matter if all the evidence
supports intelligent design and
contradicts naturalistic evolution.
Dr. Scott Todd, an immunologist at Kansas
State University said in Nature magazine:
“Even if all the data point to an
intelligent designer, such an hypothesis
is excluded from science because it is
not naturalistic.”
S. D. Todd, Nature 410(6752):423, September 30, 1999
SCIENCE - OR JUST
PHILOSOPHICAL BIAS?
“[Evolution is] a theory universally accepted
not because it can be proved by logically
coherent evidence to be true, but because the
only alternative, special creation, is clearly
incredible.”
D. M. S. Watson
“Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We
believe it because the only alternative is special
creation which is unthinkable.”
Sir Arthur Keith
“The only alternative [to evolution]
is the doctrine of special creation,
which may be true, but is
irrational.”
L. T. More
“We find that while ID arguments
may be true,… ID is not science.”
U. S. Dist. Judge, John Jones
How can the truth be irrational and
unscientific?
A DOUBLE STANDARD REGARDING
INTELLIGENT DESIGN?
THE DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD
OF SCIENCE
“A hypothesis is empirical or
scientific only if it can be tested by
experience. A hypothesis or theory
which cannot be, at least in
principle, falsified by empirical
observations and experiments does
not belong to the realm of science.”
F. J. Ayala, “Biological Evolution: Natural Selection or Random Walk?”,
American Scientist, Vol. 62, p. 700
“In accepting evolution as a
fact, how many biologists
pause to reflect that science
is built upon theories that
have been proved by
experiment to be correct, or
remember that the theory of
animal evolution has never
been thus proved?
“The fact of evolution is the backbone
of biology, and biology is thus in the
peculiar position of being a science
founded on an unproved theory...Is it
then a science or a faith? Belief in the
theory of evolution is thus exactly
parallel to belief in creation...both are
concepts which believers know to be
true but neither, up to the present, has
been capable of proof.”
L. Harrison Matthews, Introduction to The Origin of Species, 1971 Edition
COMPARING MODELS
Neither evolution or creation
qualify as scientific theories.
The evolution and creation
hypotheses do qualify to be
discussed and compared as
scientific models.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Complexity
Disorder
Less Energy
Available for Use
“The entropy also measures the randomness…of the
system: The greater the randomness, the greater
the entropy.”
Harold Blum - Evolutionist Physicist
“…The Second Law of
Thermodynamics…says, roughly
speaking, that in any change the
Universe becomes a slightly more
disorderly place; the entropy goes
up, the information content goes
down. This natural tendency
towards disintegration and chaos
is evident all around us…”
P. Davies, “Chance or choice: Is the Universe an accident?”,
80 New Scientist, p. 506
EVERYTHING THAT HAD A BEGINNING
REQUIRES A CAUSE TO EXPLAIN ITS ORIGIN
1. The Universe (including time itself) can be
shown to have had a beginning.
2. It is unreasonable to believe something could
begin to exist without a cause.
3. The Universe therefore requires a cause.
4. God, as Creator of time, is outside of time.
Since therefore He has no beginning in time,
He has always existed, so doesn’t need a
cause.
The First Cause of limitless Space
Must be infinite
The First Cause of endless Time
Must be eternal
The First Cause of boundless Energy
Must be omnipotent
The First Cause of universal interrelationships Must be omnipresent
The First Cause of supreme Complexity
Must be omniscient
The First Cause of Moral Values
Must be moral
The First Cause of Spiritual Values
Must be spiritual
The First Cause of Human Responsibility
Must be volitional
The First Cause of Human Integrity
Must be truthful
The First Cause of Human Love
Must be loving
The First Cause of Life
Must be living
NOTHING – THE PREFERRED CAUSE
It is tempting to go one step further and speculate
that the entire universe evolved from literally
nothing.
Allan H. Guth & Paul J Steinhardt
...that our Universe had its physical origin as a
quantum fluctuation of some pre-existing true
vacuum or state of nothingness.
Edward Tryon
This “quantum cosmology” provides a loophole
for the universe to, so to speak, spring into
existence from nothing, without violating any
laws of physics.
Paul Davies
“No theory can rule out divine
creation. Scientific theories are
simply proposals for how the world is,
to be tested by observation. There is
no logical impediment to God creating
the universe five minutes ago in its
present state, complete with human
memories. In the end a theory stands
or falls on whether human beings
consider it reasonable.”
Paul Davies, In a correspondence sent to A. W. Mehlert, March 22, 1993.
“Ordinarily the second
law is stated for
isolated systems, but
the second law applies
equally well to open
systems.”
John Ross, Chemical and Engineering News, July 27, 1980, p. 40
“…the simple expenditure of
energy is not sufficient to
develop and maintain order. A
bull in a china shop performs
work, but he neither creates nor
maintains organization. The work
needed is particular work; it must
follow specifications; it requires
information on how to proceed.”
G. G. Simpson and W. W. Beck, Life: An Introduction to Biology,
2nd ed, NY, 1955, p. 466
THE FOUR ESSENTIAL CRITERIA
1. The system must be open to the environment.
2. An adequate influx of energy must be available.
3. The system must possess an energy
conversion mechanism to convert harmful raw
energy into a useful form of energy.
4. A directing program must exist to control the
conversion machinery and to direct the
converted energy into the creation and
maintenance of complexity.
“This explanation, [an open system]
however, is not completely satisfying,
because it still leaves the problem of how
or why the ordering process has arisen
(an apparent lowering of the entropy), and
a number of scientists have wrestled with
this issue. Bertalanffy (1968) called the
relation between irreversible
thermodynamics and information theory
one of the most fundamental unsolved
problems in biology.”
C. J. Smith, “Problems with Entropy in Biology” in Biosystems, Vol. 1, p. 259, 1975
PRIGOGINE’S NOBEL PRIZE
In 1977, Ilya Prigogine
received the Nobel Prize in
chemistry for using
thermodynamics, in the words
of the committee, “to bridge
the gap that exists between
the biological and the social
scientific fields of inquiry.”
“What was the role of
dissipative structures in
evolution? It is very tempting to
speculate that prebiotic
evolution corresponds
essentially to a succession of
instabilities leading to an
increasing level of complexity.”
G. Nicholis & I. Prigogine, Self-Organization in Non-Equilibrium Systems: From
Dissipative Structures to Order Through Fluctuations, p. 12
SHATTERING THE CRYSTAL
ILLUSION
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“Crystallization occurs because it
leads to the lowest energy state and
to the most stable arrangement of
atoms or molecules under the given
conditions. Crystallization leads to
simple, very uniform repeating
structures, which are inert. These
structures do not function, and are
not designed by function.”
P. T. Mora, “Crystallization and the Second Law,” 199 Nature, 216 (1963)
“Unfortunately this principle [of
crystal formation] cannot explain the
formation of biological structures. The
probability that at ordinary
temperatures a macroscopic number
of molecules is assembled to give rise
to the highly ordered structures and to
the coordinated functions
characterizing living organisms is
vanishingly small.”
Ilya Prigogine, G. Nicolis and A. Babloyants, “Thermodynamics of
Evolution,” Physics Today, Vol. 25, November 1972, p. 23
“How do present-day
organisms manage to
synthesize organic compounds
against the forces of
dissolution? They do so by a
continuous expenditure of
energy…A living organism is an
intricate machine for
performing exactly this
function…
…When, for want of fuel or through
some internal failure in its mechanism,
an organism stops actively synthesizing
itself in opposition to the processes
which continuously decompose it, it
dies and rapidly disintegrates. What we
ask here is to synthesize organic
molecules without such a machine. I
believe this to be the most stubborn
problem that confronts us – the weakest
link at present in our argument.”
G. Wald, “The Origin of Life,” in The Physics and Chemistry of Life, p. 17.
“…if your theory is found to
be against the Second Law
of Thermodynamics I can
give you no hope; there is
nothing for it but to
collapse in deepest
humiliation.”
A. S. Eddington: The Nature of the Physical World, NY: Macmillan,
1930, p. 74
For ever since the creation of the
world His invisible nature and
attributes, that is, His eternal power
and divinity have been made
intelligible and clearly discernible in
and through the things that have
been made – His handiworks. So
[men] are without excuse –
altogether without any defense or
justification.
Romans 1:20 Amplified
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