The first law of thermodynamics in part supports a philosophical view not an unalterable scientific law by its proposition that “energy cannot be created or destroyed”. This view has been overstated as taking the current observable data in which total energy is seemingly constant and presumably correlating it with a perpetual outlook of moving backwards or forwards in time towards eternity. However this naturalistic position can’t be proved yet it is preached in a dogmatic fashion as being gospel in “a matter of fact” style when in essence it becomes a statement of wishful or hopeful belief.
By taking this hard line position the scientific community has converted from the discipline and field of empiricism to metaphysics as confessing “what can or can not be” instead of their formal scientific training of “what is or is not” as moving beyond the epistemological scope or value of science which in this case can’t be ultimately determined by the finitude of creaturely beings. Therefore science alone is not capable of omnisciently assigning eternality to the universe regarding its origins or for that matter its continuance or demise.
Which brings me to my next point with the second law of thermodynamics in which the universe appears to be approaching an equilibrium as succumbing to entropy as winding down with a decrease in the extent of useable energy. This phenomena speaks more definitely of a starting point rather than an eternal machine and therefore if there is an effectual beginning there must be a cause and thus a Causal Agent. This concept of causality fits well with the biblical model of God’s creation as the Supreme Being who is the external source of energy as establishing all matter and reality at a specific point in time and space and who is now directing the cosmos towards a final expenditure resulting in the finality of a new created order.
In conclusion to this matter I think it is more problematic to have a commitment towards a non theistic belief with its unaided eternally existent materialism versus the idea of an Originator of whom is greater than all the combined contingencies or subsequent effects which speaks of such Intelligence as omnipotently ordering laws as being more explicable towards a Designer’s design as forming all of these observable complexities.
Thus finally the ability to disprove God as a Creator becomes a mute point of doctrine based in the religion of pseudo science which has not thrown God out of His universe but rather continues to leave an open door of invitation as welcoming Him as a more probable cause to its origins.
Genesis 1:1
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Psalms 102:25-27
25 Of old you laid the foundation of the earth,
and the heavens are the work of your hands.
26 They will perish, but you will remain;
they will all wear out like a garment.
You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,
27 but you are the same, and your years have no end.
Revelation 21:1-5
21 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” 5 And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.”
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