One of the classic arguments for the existence of a Creator God is that order doesn’t come from disorder. In other words, our universe is precisely ordered—from the movements of the planets in their orbits to the structure of atoms. Everything is amazingly precise and orderly, and that couldn’t have come from a random universe that began with a “big bang.” But a viral video claims to disprove this idea by supposedly showing order coming from disorder.
In the video, a person picks up a box of jumbled up nails and shakes the box until all of the nails fall into neat, orderly lines. Above the video, the text reads:
Religious apologist: science actually proves my faith
Me: how so?
RA: because science proves order cannot come from disorder
Me: oh?
Now, of course, it’s obvious a human made the nails, a human made the box, a human shook the box (not too hard, not too soft), and therefore intelligence was involved in the whole process. But, in a series of responses to criticisms such as that, the X user shows other videos of “order” coming from disorder and showing the scientific principles behind it (such as crystals and minerals forming in highly organized patterns, seemingly without an intelligence behind them).
But this individual is missing an important point—there are immaterial laws governing why nails shaken in a box will align themselves or why crystals will form in precise ways. And where do immaterial laws of nature and physics come from?
In a completely material, naturalistic universe—such as the one this X user presumably believes in (and that atheists believe in)—there can’t be immaterial laws of physics and nature. After all, where do they come from? How does a materialistic process create something immaterial? And why should those laws work everywhere and work the same every time, thus allowing us to trust the uniformity of nature?
The viral video merely shows that there are immaterial laws of nature that work because there is a Creator—the God of the Bible—who designed these laws and upholds his creation. And that same God loves us so much that he stepped into the world he created, in the person of Jesus, to die on the cross and pay the penalty for our sin so we could be forgiven.
