One of the basic principles...
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One of the basic principles of science is known as the Second Law of Thermodynamics. And in technical language that law says that the entropy of an isolated system always increases. But really those complicated-sounding words are describing a rather basic idea. And simply put, that idea is that left to themselves, things fall apart. The natural tendency of all things is to become more disorganized and chaotic. A leaf falls to the ground. In time the leaf decomposes and becomes part of the soil. It goes from organized to disorganized. Children build a snowman. But in time the snowman turns into a formless blob of ice. It goes from orderly to chaotic. Or think of your house. You clean your house, but before you know it, it starts to get dirty and cluttered again. In the face of a world that confronts us with chaos and destruction, it is God who offers us hope. As Zephaniah announces, the time is coming when God will right the wrongs and will restore the world as it should be. -- Bowen
