The Second Law of Thermodynamics (2 of 2 notes)

Part Three
Theology Proper: 16 PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

Think of the process on a cosmic scale. The Sun, which supposedly generates its vast heat energy by nuclear fusion, converts 564 million tons of hydrogen every second into 560 million tons of helium and radiates the remaining four million tons each second as heat and light.¹ The sun is very large, so that the loss of four million tons of its mass every second is rather insignificant, but nevertheless, given sufficient time, the sun must give up all of its heat energy and finally come to equilibrium at near absolute zero. If the Sun were burning like a great ball of coal it would have burned for only a few thousand years and would have turned to cold cinders billions of years ago. The fact that the Sun is still hotter than its surroundings is proof that it has not been here for eternity.

1             Herbert Friedman, “The Sun” (National Geographic, Vol. 128, No. 5, p. 720).

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