Dear editor:
To the evolutionists.
Just a few facts.
The second law of thermodynamics: Neither matter nor energy may be created, nor destroyed, by nature.
The law of causality is indisputably the most universal and most certain of all scientific laws which states: Every material effect must have an adequate antecedent cause.
The whole vast imposing structure of the universe organizes itself from absolutely nothing? This is not simply difficult to grasp, it is incomprehensible.
It is absurd for evolutionists to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable god to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
To quote Stephen Hawking, Great Britain's most eminent physicist: "Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations."
What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the question of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. The odds against a universe like ours emerging from something like The Big Bang, eternal inflation or quantum fluctuations theories are enormous. I think there are clearly religious implications.
Quoting Albert Einstein: "Scientists live by their faith in causation, and the chain of cause and effect. Every effect has a cause that can be discovered by rational arguments. And this has been a very successful program, if you will, for unraveling the history of the universe. But it just fails at the beginning ... so time, really going backward, comes to a halt at that point. Beyond that, that curtain can never be lifted ... and that is really a blow at the very fundamental premise that motivates all scientists."
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth" (Genesis Chapter 1, verse 1).
This letter is for you, Mr. Nunn, and your circle of intellectual friends. I hope I wasn't lacking the proper words. Maybe you can understand a mere common Christian.
Billy Stracener
Hot Springs
Editorial on 01/28/2015