God Is On The Ropes

I llove this kind of headline, don’t you? I saw this one (above) today and had to read the article. I know it is a waste of time, but then, I have more time available for such than I used to.

Seems there are always those foolish people out there who are trying so hard to make a name for themselves they will overlook sensible Truth and create theories , and in this case a mathematical formula, that others will cling to in an attempt to ignore what is painfully obvious.

Jeremy England, a young MIT professor has proposed a theory, based in thermodynamics, showing that the emergence of life was not accidental, but necessary. “[U]nder certain conditions, matter inexorably acquires the key physical attribute associated with life,” he was quoted as saying in an article in Quanta magazine early in 2014, that’s since been republished by Scientific American and, more recently, by Business Insider. In essence, he’s saying, life itself evolved out of simpler non-living systems. England has a specific, unifying, testable evolutionary mechanism in mind.

 Quanta fleshed things out a bit more like this: From the standpoint of physics, there is one essential difference between living things and inanimate clumps of carbon atoms: The former tend to be much better at capturing energy from their environment and dissipating that energy as heat. England, a 31-year-old assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has derived a mathematical formula that he believes explains this capacity. The formula, based on established physics, indicates that when a group of atoms is driven by an external source of energy (like the sun or chemical fuel) and surrounded by a heat bath (like the ocean or atmosphere), it will often gradually restructure itself in order to dissipate increasingly more energy. This could mean that under certain conditions, matter inexorably acquires the key physical attribute associated with life. (Salon) 

Now don’t misunderstand, some of this is true. For example, sometimes when I (a group of atoms) am driven by an external source of energy (like the sun) and surrounded by a heat bath (sweat), I will gradually restructure myself into the lake to dissipate increasing energy (heat).

And, it is also true that the emergence of life was not an accident, but necessary, because the Creator wanted to impart to us His very nature, and llove us with His infinite, endless llove.

Isn’t God good!