We hear a lot from the atheistic community. The media seems to enjoy writing about skeptics who are high-profile academics—scientists, professors, and the like—and their ideas. Article after article will appear and communicate to the world that only dumb people or ill-informed people embrace the belief in a personal, infinite God—one who has the power to create the universe and mankind.
The God Question and Scientific Logic
But the person who holds an atheistic view puts himself in a very difficult position. When you think through the issues, you realize that stating, “There is no God,” is not a rational position to assume.
You have to ask, “Does this universe really exist? And if something does exist, where did it come from?” When you ask that, you really only have two possible conclusions:
- Something must be eternal.
- Something not eternal came from nothing.
The God Question and Thermodynamics
First, they might say, “The universe is eternal.” But that’s not true, because the second law of thermodynamics says that the universe is not eternal. In a closed system, the available energy will become less and less until, finally, you have no available energy at all. This is called heat death.
This means one of two things:
- The universe was created a finite amount of time ago and hasn’t yet had enough time to reach heat death.
- There must be a cosmic gas station attendant out there somewhere feeding it energy.
Gordon J. Van Wylen, former dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan, offers compelling insights about thermodynamics and creation.
If the atheist is logical, he must conclude the same. The universe is not eternal.
So if it’s not eternal, where did it come from? We’ll take a look at that next week
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