Bondage of Decay (Entropy)

[Churchwork]

From the fall in Gen. 3, we find in Romans 8, "All creation anticipates the day when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay" (v.21).

The entropy law is the 2nd law of thermodynamics. History really starts in the Garden of Eden.

[DD_8630]

The second law of thermodynamics concerns closed systems and entropy. Decay is unrelated to either concept.

[Churchwork]

The decay spoken of is entropy of the creation, the closed system of the universe, for outside it is the uncreated always existing God.

[DD_8630]

Nevertheless, the decay mentioned in Romans 8 is unrelated to the entropy predicted by the second law.

[Churchwork]

Not at all. It's the same.

[DD_8630]

Not quite. When Paul talks of decay, he is referring to biological processes such as aging and decomposition. When a physicist talks of entropy, they are referring to the uniformity of a system. The two are not the same.

As an aside, the existance of the Sun precludes any increase in Earth's entropy.

[Churchwork]

Paul is also talking of the uniformity of a system. They are the same. The sun does not change this fact.

[DD_8630]

Paul is also talking of the uniformity of a system.

Justification? Given that Paul would have had no knowledge of Boltzmann's or Fermi-Dirac's statistical laws, I find it hard to believe that Paul had a grasp of entropy several millenia before the theory was even considered.

The sun does not change this fact.

Actually, it does. The Sun is constantly giving the Earth energy. This input decreases entropy. Indeed, this input is why complex biological life can form.

[Churchwork]

It goes to show you how advanced the Bible is millennia before.

[DD_8630]

It goes to show you how advanced the Bible is millennia before.

That it would, if you could demonstrate that Paul is indeed talking of the same thing the phyicist is.