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Some Basic Laws of the Universe

A physical law or scientific law is a scientific generalization based on empirical observations of physical
behavior. Laws of nature are observable. Scientific laws are empirical, describing the observable laws.
Empirical laws are typically conclusions based on repeated scientific experiments and simple
observations, over many years, and which have become accepted universally within the scientific
community.

Thermodynamic laws describe the movement of heat and work (energy) throughout the universe.

The First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or
destroyed. Energy can only change forms. The official way to say it is like this. The
change in a system's internal energy is equal to the difference between heat added
to the system from its surroundings and work done by the system on its
surroundings. It means that food energy is changed to biological energy for the body.
The energy to maintain life, plus the work we do as an individual is the amount of
energy the body consumes. In the body, the excess energy is then processed by the
body and stored in fat tissue (energy is conserved or stored).

From a creation perspective, this makes sense, since the Bible says that God completed his creation on
day six and therefore, it only changes, nothing new is created. It is however a problem from an
evolutionary perspective, since it needs the existence of energy to come into existence naturally. This is
equally accepted by faith just as one accepts God creating by faith. In fact, it is even rational, since
energy is not being created nor destroyed in our universe, that it had its beginning by the creative act of
God.

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.

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

In this picture 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
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person you used to be. As the body replaces cells, the 2 Law 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.
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