Energy Never Ends

The Conservation of Energy

For those who love a challenging question, let’s ask if energy ever ends. For example, think about sunlight. Does the power of the light generated by the sun ever dissipate into nothing? According to the law of the conservation of energy, the power of light does not simply wear away to nothing. Energy can be converted into another form but always continues in another form.

So, the sun gives off light as energy. As it arrives to Earth, it can convert into heat to warm our planet. Or it is used by plants, like trees that store the energy. Trees are a kind of battery for kinetic energy. If we cut down the tree and set it on fire, the energy is released by the fire to warm us. But, the energy still goes to other places in an amazing and diverse cycle that has countless iterations.

Science Takes an Unpopular Stand

Scientists have concluded that energy cannot be created or destroyed in a closed system. It can only be added to or drained from by an outside force. So, they conclude that we have the same amount of energy in our universe.

One example is dynamite. The chemical energy stored in dynamite is converted to kinetic energy when a stick of dynamite explodes. If we add up all forms of energy that were released in the explosion, such as the kinetic energy and potential energy of the pieces, as well as heat and sound, one will get the exact decrease of chemical energy in the combustion of the dynamite.

Strange but true. The conservation of energy has endless examples. But, doesn’t the conservation of energy concept loudly argue for God as the source that made our world and universe? If this law is reliable and we apply it dispassionately, we must conclude that a supreme God with an infinite supply of power is the only way a closed system could: #1 Start or #2 End the universe.

Sometimes, the Truth Hurts

So, many deniers want to throw dust in the air using paradoxical arguments that have no good conclusion. If one cannot answer the question, they always retreat to confusion. “Who created God?” or “Where did God get HIs power?” There is no answer that we will understand because we are mortal and finite, and the finite can never explain the infinite. Neither can an ant reason about the existence of man or how mankind operates.

“Occam's razor, or the principle of parsimony, tells us that the simplest, most elegant explanation is usually the one closest to the truth.” Occam’s razor is considered simple and basic logic to conclude a question. Based on the concept of the conservation of energy, we are once again pushed to accept an infinite creator God.