The Old Covenant law was never given to earn salvation. God saved people back then just as He does today under the New Covenant – by faith! Even before the law we read that “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness” (Rom. 4:3). Therefore the Old Covenant law was given for God’s people to identify themselves as God’s people. The law was for those already saved so it may go well with them and they may know how to rightly honor God with their actions. In other words, the law didn’t save, but obedience to the law gave evidence of salvation. And when the law was violated, the whole sacrificial system was in place to make temporary atonement through blood for one’s transgression.
Randy Smith

The Failure Of The Big Bang The

The Failure Of The Big Bang The

Big Bang Or Creation?

David Layzer, of Harvard, in attempting to deal with this problem, has first redefined “times’ arrow” (a term coined for the Second Law by Sir Arthur Eddiington) in terms of two arrows, one pointing up and one pointing down. The processes that define the historical and the thermodynamic arrows of time generate information and entrophy, respectively. -Layzer,

By the “historical arrow”, Layzer means the evolutionary process, which presumably gernerates a higher and higher degree of “information” (or “order” or “complexity”) in the world. This can only be done at the cost of increasing entropy. Thus a gain of information is always compensated for by an equal loss of entropy. – David Layzer

However, the “thermodynamic arrow” defines entropy as always increasing. Layzer, in effect, has restated the problem, but he hasn’t solved it. That is, just HOW is this increasing information genreated at the cost of a loss of entropy?!! WHAT is the code that directs it and and WHERE is the mechanis that activates it??!! Without these, the naturally increasing entropy simply precludes an increase of information. The empty statment that “the earth is an open system” is no answer.

A number of other evolutionists (Weisskopf, Dickerson, Eigen, et al) have also tried to deal with this subject. They at least have acknowledged that the entropy problem requires more than the usual “open system” cliche, but they are all as unable to solve the problem as Prigogine, Layzer, and Wicken have been.

Sonntag and Van Wylen in their widely used two-volume text-book, say:

….the authors see the second law of thermodynamics as man’s description of the prior and continuing work of a creator, who also holds the answer to the future destiny of man and the universe. (Vol.1) The present laws of science point directly to the fact of Creation and profoundly conflict with the humanist philosophy of a continuing naturalistic evolution.