Isaiah 51:6 New International Version (NIV) Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies.
Psalm 102:25-26 New International Version (NIV) In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded.
Hebrews 1:10-11 New International Version (NIV) In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment.
I’m sure you know the word “thermodynamics”, but may not have the science or engineering background to know what it means. You’ve likely heard the First Law: energy can’t be created or destroyed; it can only be converted from one form to another. However, most of you probably haven’t heard the Second Law: every energy transfer or transformation increases the entropy of the universe.
What’s entropy? It’s a measure of randomness or disorder–the wasted energy since nothing is 100% efficient. Over time as energy is consumed, everything wears out. It applies to living organisms, mechanical devices, and the entire universe.
The German physicist Rudolf Julius Emmanuel Clausius conceived entropy in 1850, Be appreciative that many scientists of the era fiercely debated the principles of thermodynamics before accepting them as factual, and they remain correct today.
Here’s the fascinating point. Examples of entropy show up in the Bible in the above three examples. Isaiah preceded Clausius by 2500 years, Psalms by 2800 years, and Hebrews by 1800 years. They wrote that the heavens wear out, the earth wears out, people wear out, and clothing wears out. All of these examples describe entropy!
What is the only constant–the one and only one thing that doesn’t experience entropy? God! When everything else vanishes, He remains!