There are several things in this movie that I want to say something about, but for now, I'll just start with the first one that came up.
Incidentally, my father is a devout Christian, and has a book that addresses the same things that this movie did. So I had formed my opinion of the Second Law of Thermodynamics argument, and therefore the Entropy argument, long before I watched this movie.
Using the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Entropy, as proof of a creator cannot work. Read on for my explanation, and I welcome INTELLIGENT responses to this.
The movie uses Entropy as an argument for the intelligent creation of the Universe. For Entropy to exist, the Universe must function as a CLOSED system. This is a VERY important distinction. Keep this in mind.
They refer to the Universe as a CLOSED system, and as such, no force may act upon the Universe from outside, or it is no longer a CLOSED system. This includes God. Therefore, if God created the universe and set things into motion as the movie says, God must be a part of the Universe for it to remain a CLOSED system.
Remember that God, in the Christian view, and as the movie states, is transcendant, has existed before time began, and will exist after time ends (and the movie says time will end, that the Bible refers to a FINITE universe). So God is Eternal, and therefore will not, and cannot, die or cease to be.
Now comes the crux of my argument. If the Universe is a CLOSED system, it moves towards Entropy. If this is the case, and God is part of the Universe... God is also moving towards Entropy, and will eventually cease to be. Obviously, this cannot stand in the normal Christian view of things.
So, lets say a religious type would like to say, then, that God obviously isn't part of the Universe, He is outside of it, transcendant from it, and therefore created and set the Universe into motion from outside. This changes the Universe from a CLOSED system to an OPEN one, because a force is acting upon the Universe from outside of it.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics only functions in CLOSED systems. So, if God isn't part of the Universe, the Universe is an OPEN system, and therefore, the Second Law of Thermodynamics no longer applies.
Oh, yes. One last thing. If you try to say that God is above these rules, because he is the Creator and should not be subject to rules of Science, and can act on the Universe without violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics, you cannot use that law as an argument. To SCIENTIFICALLY prove something using a Law of Science, you MUST obey that Law. As a very minor example: To say that 2 + 2 = 4, you MUST agree that 2 = 2, and that 2 cannot be anything other than 2 just because you find it convenient.
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