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than-maximum entropy have endured for all eternity. ”4. ENTROPY AND THE FINITE UNIVERSE implies that it cannot. Also in the book God and the New Physics, he writes: 'Physicists have invented a mathematical quantity called entropy to quantify disorder, and many careful experiments verify that the total entropy in a system never decreases. ” 'If the universe has a finite stock of order, and is changing irreversibly towards disorder - ultimately to thermodynamic equilibrium two very deep inferences follow immediately. The first is that the universe will eventually die, wallowing, as it were, in its own entropy. This is known among physicists as the "heat death" of the universe. The second is that the universe cannot have existed for ever, otherwise it would have reached its equilibrium end state an infinite time ago. Conclusion: the universe did not always exist. ”. Professor Edward Kessel, Chairman of the University of San Francisco writes: ‘. . . life is still going on, and chemical and physical processes are still in progress, it is evident that our universe could not have existed from eternity, else it would have long since run out of useful energy and ground to a halt. Therefore, quite un-intentionally, science proves that our universe had a beginning. . And in so doing it proves the reality of God, for whatever had a beginning did not begin of itself but demands a Prime Mover, a Creator, a God. ". From the above-quoted excerpt it becomes quite clear that on the issue of the existence of God, there is sound scientific evidence to support belief in Him. This contention is securely based on the very information the so327