Is the World Running Down?: Crisis in the Christian Worldview

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Summary: Great in-depth look at modern views of the law of entropy!
Review: Gary North details in this book the modern defense of 6-day creationism by evangelical theologians using the second law of thermodynamics (entropy), and the use by New Age theologians (such as Jeremy Rifkin) of this principle of physics to defend the view that the world and its resources are inevitably running out. North gives cogent arguments that 1)the universe is not a closed system, since it is dependent upon God for its life, sustenance, and replenishment; 2) the resurrection of Jesus Christ has tremendous implications for the physical creation, since the covenant blessings of God can and will rest on the physical world He has made, as men and nations are converted to the gospel of Christ; and 3) the employing of the logic of the law of entropy by New Age theologians is merely a smokescreen to disguise the socialistic/communistic tendencies of those who seek ultimate control of the world and its resources. Those who would refute evolutionism, as well as those who would incline toward the conrol of the world and its resources must reckon with Dr. North's sound reasoning and arguments. John Unger, June 20, 199