Well, I’m writing about chemistry…sorta…when I should be writing down answers to chemistry problems. Ah well…
So you have the Second Law of Thermodynamics, right? It says that for every change in matter and energy, the entropy of the universe must incrtease. Meaning that the number of “microstates” available increases. You could call this randomness, bt it’s simply a measure of how many possibilities there are. You could call it decay too…in this context most people do…
Which brings up an interesting point. Don’t we see this in society? For every action man takes, somehow, somewhere something is fractionated. There are more possibilities, but this leads to societal decay from pretty much any viewpoint. One part of society may become more ordered, but for the rest of society things disintegrate more overall. Not a good thing, though of course it leads to lots of “possibilities”…
So, looking at things from a Crationist philosophical point of view (yeah I know you’re gonna stop reading right here) you have an explanation for why things haven’t quickly decayed to maximum possibility, maximum randomness, maximum decay: intervention by a Deity every few thousand years, imparting first destructive (flood) then socially constructive (incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection) energies into the universal system to reduce the number of possibilities by first destruction of unfavorable outcomes, then by unification of many outcomes into one. Therefore by an external force, for which the universe cannot account (because God is not becoming more decayed, random or microstate-filled due to principles of being outside of time etc.), imparted a “boost” to the universe so that it wouldn’t descend into complete and utter chaos, as manifested by multiplicities of possibilities, nearly all of which would be destructive and lead to the decimation, and ultimate destruction, of all creation into cold, dark, dead matter.
Which begs the conclusion that we may well be ripe for another input of energy (second coming or whatnot) or that, by extrapolation, it may be a millenium and then some away. Again, this is extrapolation so I am by no means predicting that the end ofthe world is nigh, but just throwing something out there…
Well, thanks for trying to follow the above. If you got confused, that’s fine. I just wrote this in maybe ten minutes though I’ve ben thinking about the whole idea for the past few days. Tell me what you think…