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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.

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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 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.

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
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to have developed upward, becoming more orderly and complex. However, the2 Law of
Thermodynamics reveals the exact opposite. In the long run, complex, ordered arrangements tend to
become simpler and more disorderly with time. There is an irreversible downward trend ultimately at
work throughout the universe. Evolution, with its ever-increasing order and complexity, appears
impossible in the natural world.

The evolutionists have then created billions of years of time to make the improbably possible.
Supposedly the “big bang” occurred 14.6 billion years ago, with the earth coming together about 4.5
billion years ago. For evolution to have occurred in the minds of scientists today, there had to be a huge
amount of time for the billions of changes to have arisen by rote chance.

The problem is that the addition of prolonged time periods does not increase the likelihood of
spontaneously derived information. They must account for how the laws of thermodynamics and
chemical equilibrium demand that all systems tend toward disorder with the advance of time.
Specifically, the second law demands that the total amount of information in a closed system decreases
as time advances. Another way of saying it is that information stored on magnetic tapes, pages of
books, or sequences in the DNA code ALWAYS degrades. As time advances, DNA molecules collect
informational errors or mutations and the organism eventually dies. Ink fades on ancient scrolls. Old
recordings become filled with informational noise. In every case, time ALWAYS results in the loss of
information, not an increase.
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Evolution demands just the opposite. To change from a one-celled creature over billions of years into a
complex man requires a million-fold increase in information stored in the DNA of each cell. Evolutionists
believe that information increases over time without any intelligent guidance; it increases by rote
chance. Such thinking flies in the face of everything we know about the effects of time on stored
information.

We see an actual death in Chapter 4 when Cain killed his brother Abel. In fact, the Bible characters
lived, did such and such, then died. The real issue of death is that it is the separation from God which
Paul explains in the New Testament. The fall reveals God’s love for mankind. Immediately after man
sinned, God provided a covering for the shame. An innocent animal died in order to cover their shame.
Genesis 3:15 is known as “proto-evangelion” or the first gospel. It also sets the stage for mankind’s
redemption through Christ. Scripture says, “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and
between your offspring and hers, and he will crush your head and you strike his heal.” Most scholars

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