Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

Consequently, what about the first law, the law of the conservation of energy, which says that energy cannot be created and must therefore have been here forever? That law precludes a creator, ruling out God by very definition. This is arbitrary, unscientific—and unreasonable, but most of the world, led by the new atheistic science, is far down that irrational path. Although it is true that man can neither create nor destroy energy, common sense says that it could not have existed forever or, according to the second law, it all would have entropied long ago. Therefore, energy and all matter must have had a beginning.