Foundations of Creation: Volume 19

The universe runs on laws — and laws require a Lawgiver. In this intellectually rich volume of Foundations of Creation, young readers explore the world of physics and discover why the fundamental structure of the cosmos points unmistakably to a rational, all-powerful Creator. The laws of thermodynamics are explained in vivid everyday terms: the First Law tells us that energy cannot create itself, meaning the universe required a Creator to bring it into existence; the Second Law tells us that everything naturally moves toward disorder, which is the precise opposite of what evolutionary theory requires. The mysterious “unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics” — the physicist Eugene Wigner’s famous observation that abstract math describes physical reality with stunning precision — is shown to make perfect sense if the same Mind designed both the universe and the human intellect. The fine-tuning of the cosmos is examined in detail: dozens of physical constants — gravity, the strong nuclear force, the cosmological constant, the speed of light — are set with such extraordinary precision that even the tiniest variation would make life, stars, or even atoms impossible. Popular claims that the universe arose from “nothing” are shown to involve a fundamental redefinition of the word, substituting quantum fields and spacetime for true nothingness. The universe is not an accident. It is an argument.