This podcast is dedicated to topics of archaeological, historical, scientific and logical discussions in theology. The primary point of conflict between proponents of intelligent design vs evolutionism, for example, is the question of origins.
AW Wilder-Smith Smith, a brilliant scientist with three PhD’s in the biological field, clarifies that the spontaneous synthesis of life’s building blocks, and embedding of information within life, is made absolutely impossible by the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
The second law of thermodynamics builds upon the First law by stating that all energy, which according to the first law cannot be created or destroyed, experiences a universal process of change, and it is a directional change, but it is not an upward change.
We left off last time with the clear statements in Scripture that all things wer created and have been hurled into a downward spiral of devolution and death. These Biblical realities are heavily demonstrated by the laws of thermodynamics.
To conclude our observations regarding prophecy in Scripture that allude to end times judgement, we noted a recent though dwarfish example of upcoming events by looking at Mt. St. Helens.
Last time we were looking at an interesting scripture found in the ancient book of Job, “Have you entered into the treasures of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?"
Water and its characteristics are obviously specially designed to help maintain life on Earth. A very unique property of water is that ice is uniquely less dense than its liquid state, and therefore floats.
Thermal escape alone cannot explain the lack of helium in the atmosphere, and so the problem is considered “unsolved”. Could the source of the problem be the assumption that the Earth is 4 billion years old?
To explain the significant lack of helium according to an old Earth, evolutionists theorize that helium escapes the atmosphere. But is the temperature of the exosphere base high enough to allow that much helium to escape?
Has the Earth's magnetic field been at a constant decay rate? Or a dynamic decay? Learn the difference and what the age of the Earth would be based on these 2 theories.
Compasses point north because of the magnetic field of the core of the Earth. That magnetic field is weakening. Could this prove the theory of a young Earth?
One theory to explain this paradox is that the Earth used to have much more greenhouse gas, and then the amount of that gas decreased at the same rate as the sun's heat increased. But is this coincidental same rate even plausible?
As we talked about last episode, the assumed age of the sun would mean Earth would've begun as an ice planet. Yet this conflicts the Earths record, which insists its temperature has not changed in the past 4 billion years.
The early faint sun paradox asks: 4 billion years ago when the sun would've been 40% cooler than now, making the Earth an ice planet, how could life form?
Dr. Russel Humphreys, an award-winning physicist, has been working to bring cosmogeny up to date, by applying relativity and thus showing that the universe not infinite, but with a boundary and a center.
According to General Relativity, if a person is located close to an extremely dense mass, like a black hole, time would be greatly slowed. These days the Hubble telescope has, in the opinion of many cosmologists, located some of these black holes.
We’ve spoken before about the fact that we can seeing galaxies that cold be even billions of light years away. But, if that is true, how could the Biblical account limiting the Earth’s age to 1000’s of years also be true?