Views of Scientists on the Existence of God — Page 8
8 and Science,' by Monsieur Maurice Bucaille, Crescent Publishing. Company, Aligarh, 1980,p. 139). It has been inferred from an important priciple of physics, namely, the law of entropy, that our universe did not exist from eternity. According to this principle, if hot and cold bodies are in contact with each other, energy would flow from the hotter bodies to the colder bodies until, at last, the temperature would be universally uniform and there would be no more useful energy; hence life itself would cease to exist. Drawing attention to the law of entropy and the Big Bang origin of the universe, Dr. Edwin. Luther Kessel, Professor of Biololgy, University of San Francisco, has made the following illuminating comment:. If only all scientists would consider the evidence of science here described with the same honesty and lack of prejudice with which they evaluate the results of their own research; if only they would let their intellects rule their emotions; they would be compelled to acknowledge that there is a God. This is the only conclusion that will fit the facts. To study science with an open mind will bring one to the necessity of a First Cause, whom we call God. ' (Evidence p. 52). Chemistry also opposes the view that our universe existed from eternity. Dr. John Cleveland Cothram, Professor of Chemistry, writes:. Chemistry discloses that matter is ceasing to exist, some varieties exceedingly slowly, others exceedingly swiftly. Therefore, the existence of matter is not eternal. Consequently matter must have a beginning. (Evidence p. 41). The presence of radioactive elements in the universe also indicates that the universe is not eternal. Dr. Donald Robert Carr, Ceochemist, writes:. In a universe which had no beginning but had always existed, no radioactive elements would remain. (Evidence p. 134). In short, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, and Geology are all unanimous in rejecting the view that the universe had no beginning. . It may be asked what is the view of those scientists who do not believe in. God, concerning the origin of the universe. In his book entitled The. Fascinating Astronomy, Dr. V. N. Komorov, gives the following quotation from Academician Pyotr Fedoseyev, a leading Soviet philosopher:. A material philosophy does not recognize the idea of the creation of the physical world by consciousness, by a supreme being. If we agree