Re: Letter to the Editor: God set the universal clock
- From: "Alfred A. Aburto Jr." <aburto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 14:42:06 GMT
Jason Spaceman wrote:
> From the article:
> ------------------------------------
> Sunday, September 4, 2005
>
> Thermodynamics teaches that all things will get into disorder, rather than
> order, if left to themselves. This infers that there is a universal tendency
> toward decay.
>
> Evolutionists say that complex substances came from simple substances, but the
> opposite is true. Radioactive elements ultimately decay into helium and lead. A
> spring wound clock will gradually slow down and stop.
>
> The only way this can be changed is by the influence of an outside force.
> Without such a force and laws to control it, there would be a state of chaos.
>
> But the universe is not in chaos, for all heavenly bodies follow an orderly
> pattern. God designed all this and set up laws for the operation of all things
> he created.
>
> One example is our own planet Earth, which rotates at 700 mph (at our latitude)
> and at the same time speeds around the sun at 66,000 mph.
>
> That?s how it was set up by God, not by a group of space scientists or by
> chance.
>
> Why the reluctance to speak out and teach our young people the truth about our
> universe?
>
> Is it because our educators live in mortal fear of the ACLU, atheists and public
> opinion?
>
> Fear is what removed prayer and Bibles from our schools, and now the teaching of
> intelligent design will suffer the same fate, unless the men and women of
> America take a stand to prevent it.
>
> FLOYD R. EYLER
> LOWER WINDSOR TOWNSHIP
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>
> Read it at http://ydr.com/story/letters/83845/
>
> J. Spaceman
>
I submitted the following:
(it is probably more than 300 words and won't get published, but here it is)
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God set the universal clock
This is in response to Floyd R. Eyler's letter, "God set the universal
clock", of 04 Sep 2005.
The universe has both chaotic and non-chaotic aspects. Take the air
molecules in a room for example. We need for them to move very fast in
an almost purely random uniform manner else a vacuum could be created if
all the molecules suddenly moved to one corner of the room! As you can
imagine there would be rather gruesome consequences if the air molecules
did not move randomly all the time! Without forms of chaos, randomness,
like this, life could not survive on this planet.
The non-chaotic aspects of nature are due to the laws of nature. These
laws and rules and processes of nature govern every aspect of the
behavior of matter in the universe. The laws of nature are responsible
for all the forms of matter we find in the universe from electrons to
humans to stars to galaxies and all that is in the universe. We do not
need to invoke God, magic or miracles in order to explain the formation
and movement of stars and planets and solar systems. They are simply
matter following the laws of nature (the laws of thermodynamics and
gravity for example). At this very instant there are trillions upon
trillions of stars with planets being formed in the universe. The
planets have various speeds about their stars and the stars have various
speeds about their galaxies. This is a normal process of nature. There
is little doubt that there are Earth like planets out there too. They
may or may not have life and intelligence. Someday we'll know. One thing
is certain though, we must not stop searching and learning.
Scientists and philosophers and peoples from all walks of life have
thought about God and religion and science for thousands of years. It
could be for example that God _is_ the laws of nature, or that God is
the source, the creator, of the laws of nature. These are beliefs
however which belong more to philosophy than science. The great problem,
the great conflict, between science and religion is that religion sticks
stubbornly, steadfastly, even fanatically, to a particular belief, but
science keeps theories that best explain phenomena in nature and casts
out those that do not. The religions of the world proclaim they have
found God, but science says, no, not yet, keep going ("searching" if you
will). If religion were more amendable to change, the world would be a
better place. Instead religious beliefs steadfastly held cause great
conflicts and turmoil in this world.
Intelligent Design(ID) is a belief, it is a religion. It does not belong
in our public schools. If Intelligent Design were a science then it
would have become so, like evolution has, through its own merits! Since
Intelligent Design cannot be a science the people behind ID want to
force it upon the public through legislation. We must not allow this. It
is wrong.
.
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