Much has been made of recent atheist vs. theist debates, including such people as Al Sharpton and Kirk Cameron. Trouble is, even if the theists win, nobody gets saved in the process. It’s just a huge defense to keep Jews and Christians from being labeled irrational.

Let me bring up a little bit of high school physics, and if you run in fear I don’t blame you.

The second law of thermodynamics has various theoretical expressions, one of which is that the universe never stops becoming more random. Things decay without creative or substantive processes. Some people refer to this as Time’s Arrow, or proof that time only goes in one direction.

An air conditioner uses energy to move heat from a cooler house to the warmer outside. Some of that energy could be recycled, but some is lost as entropy because it is used to fight the natural flow of heat from hot to cool. We have air conditioners because intelligent beings figured out how to expend energy through compressors to move other energy in the wrong direction.

From one point in time before the beginning of the universe to a point slightly after, we have moved from a state of low order to a state of higher order with all this organized matter flying around and starting to cool off. This defies the natural way of things moving from hot to cold, from ordered to unordered. The defiance of nature is a sign of intelligence.

Of course, this doesn’t prove God or your favorite divine persona. It just seems to me that atheism requires more faith against the available evidence than theism, and there’s no Holy Spirit to help you out with that.