Corn and the Hand of God
Genesis 1 11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. So having recently moved to a smaller town in Nebraska, I can attest that the name Cornhuskers is a good mascot for the University of Nebraska. Right now the corn and the beans look fantastic, and as everywhere I go, I see full fields (even right next to the church building), I am reminded how fruitful the earth is and how faithful God is. This got me thinking about a scientific principle called the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that in a closed system entropy increases. This means that in any system where there are no inputs, things tend to decay or get less orderly. We see this in...