Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator and Human Destiny—The Atheist’s Achilles Heel

John Lennox wrote, “[Friedrich] Engels made a very perceptive comment on the issues at stake: ‘Did God create the world? Or has the world been in existence eternally? . . .” Obviously, it has not always existed because although, according to the first law of thermodynamics, energy cannot be destroyed, the second law, the law of entropy, declares that it deteriorates until it becomes utterly useless. This tells us that the universe had a beginning, or energy would have degraded to the point of total uselessness.

Lennox continued, “Stephen Hawking adopts a similar view: ‘Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.’” In spite of reluctance to accept the consensus that the cosmos had a beginning, the evidence cannot be denied.