Order from chaos?

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1).

Do you have a hard time believing that God exists? Let’s consider the world around us; maybe a look at science can help you with your doubts.

Walk through a junkyard. Everywhere you turn, there is rusted metal. Over time, iron that is exposed to the elements crumbles into rust. Nowhere do you see a heap of rust that gradually turns into a chunk of solid iron. If iron degrades as soon as it is exposed to the environment, where did the metal come from?

Consider the laws of science. A byproduct of work is the creation of heat; for example, a car engine gets hot while running. Gasoline contains potential energy; that energy is released by combustion. Most of the energy is used to make your wheels turn; the rest becomes heat and is lost. Now the Second Law of Thermodynamics states that once energy has been released, it cannot be restored to it’s former state; in other words, you cannot spin a wheel, apply heat and create gasoline. Once burned, the gasoline is lost forever. This being the case, how did gasoline come to be filled with potential energy?

Suppose you fill an egg crate with Ping-Pong balls, then lay it in the bed of your pickup. As you drive along the road, the balls started to bounce all over the place. How long would you have to drive around before they all bounced back into the egg crate? If motion and time turn order into chaos, how did highly complex and ordered things like human beings come into existence?

When science observes nature, everywhere it looks it finds entropy at work. Order crumbles into chaos. Weedy fields don’t change into well-manicured lawns no matter how long you wait for it to happen. Over time, erosion destroys even the strongest of mountains. Science based on observation shows that as time passes, things fall apart.

Evolution doesn’t explain how things came to be—the theory of evolution flies in the face of what can be proved through observation. Order cannot rise out of chaos. No, there is only one explanation for the creation of an ordered world; in the beginning, everything must have been made by God.