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INTRODUCTIONThy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thyfoot swell, thesefortyyears (Deut. 8:4).Andye shall serve the LORDyour God, and he shall bless thy bread, andthy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. Thereshall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number ofthy days I willfulfil (Ex. 23:25-26).The first law of thermodynamics states that the total of "matterenergy"in the universe is constant throughout eternity, or at leastafter the "Big Bang" (the evolutionists' version of creation). The secondlaw of thermodynamics states that useful energy is either constant(equilibrium conditions)1 or decreasing (kinetic energy) in theuniverse as a whole. Useful energyfor the universe as a whole thereforecan never increase. (The underlying assumption of the second law isthat the universe itself is a closed system, something like a giant container.Without this crucial assumption, the second law of thermodynamicsloses its status as a universal law.)We read: "Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thyfoot swell, these forty years" (Deut. 8:4). Thus, any consistent scientificapplication of the second law of thermodynamics to this versewould have to assert that God must have drawn energy from someexternal source in order to produce this local overcoming ofentropy'seffects. Perhaps God in some way rechanneled energy from the sunthat otherwise would have been dissipated into space, or into the1. A system is in equilibrium when its components are not moving in any particulardirection. When a gas is in equilibrium in a container, its molecules are bouncingrandomly against the walls of the container. In theory, no heat from outside thecontainer passes through to the gas inside, and no heat from the gas inside passesduough the container's walls to the outside. The random bouncing of the moleculesof the gas does not produce measurable changes- heat, pressure- in the gas, takenas a unit.1