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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
manifestation of this law. The effects of the 2 Law are all around, touching
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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.

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 design).
However, such 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.

Naturalistic Evolutionism requires that physical laws and atoms organize themselves into increasingly
complex and beneficial, ordered arrangements. Thus, over eons of time, billions of things are supposed
to have developed upward, becoming more orderly and complex.

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