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Chapter 3 is very significant because it explains how man was separated from God because of sin. Eve
was tempted by Satan. She succumbed to the temptation and ate the fruit which God commanded them
not to eat. She gave the fruit to her husband, Adam, who was standing there and who also ate and
disobeyed God’s direct command. Judgment was placed on three involved in the sin; the serpent, Eve,
and Adam. The greatest judgment which mankind received because of sin was death.

Before sin entered the world, there was no death on earth. The Bible makes it very clear that the
consequence of Adam’s sin was death. This flies in the face of evolutionary theory, which says that over
millions of years of natural selection, the strongest of creatures survived, and the weakest died, passing
on their strong traits to their progeny. Evolution, to occur, took millions of years of death to finally
produce a creature called man. Because of this difference in the origin of death, both creation and
evolution cannot be true. You cannot be a Christian evolutionist and hold to the Genesis account of
creation and the origin of sin.

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With sin, God created a new Law, the Law of Death. In science, we call this the 2 Law of
Thermodynamics. It simply means that as time passes, all things begin to age. If you were a scientist,
you would say it this way. The Second Law of Thermodynamics states “energy systems have a tendency
to increase their entropy (disorder) rather than decrease it.” The Second Law describes basic principles
familiar in everyday life. It is partially a universal law of decay; the ultimate cause of why everything
ultimately falls apart and disintegrates over time. Material things are not eternal. Everything appears to
change eventually and chaos increases. Nothing stays as fresh as the day one buys it; clothing becomes
faded, threadbare, and ultimately returns to dust. Everything ages and wears out. Even death is a
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manifestation of this law. The effects of the 2 Law are all around, touching everything in the universe.

In the picture to the right, you see a famous actress in the US of
yesteryear. Scientists say that every 7-10 years, all the cells in our body
are replaced by new ones. In other words, every ten years you are not
the same person you used to be. As the body replaces cells, the 2 Law
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bears evidence that the new body is not quite as organized as the old
one. As you see in the comparative pictures, the actress changed
considerably over seven or eight redoes. It’s called aging. As you see in
the bottom photo, she succumbed to the Law as some system in her body
failed, causing death.

When sin entered the world, just as God promised, death entered the
world. The 2 Law was put into motion by an act of disobedience, and it
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affects all living creatures and systems. At that time, creation was cursed
with the result of sin. As we age, our bodies become less organized and eventually complex systems
begin to fail. Death is our ultimate end.

It is well known that, left to themselves, chemical compounds ultimately break apart into simpler
materials; they do not ultimately become more complex. Outside forces can increase order for a time
(through the expenditure of relatively large amounts of energy, and through the input of some
intelligent design). However, such a reversal cannot last forever. Once the force is released, processes
return to their natural direction – greater disorder. Their energy is transformed into lower levels of
availability for further work. The natural tendency of complex ordered arrangements and systems is to
become simpler and more disorderly with time.

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