Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

It is self-evident that at one time the stars, planets, galaxies, and the energy from which they are made did not exist. All must have come into existence in the distant but finite past. Of that we can be certain. Otherwise, all stars would have burned out by now and the entire universe would be approaching absolute zero in temperature. We are driven by the second law of thermodynamics, the law of entropy, to conclude that there was a time when no material thing existed, not even the energy from which all is made.