The Evidence of Nature

by Elton Trueblood, The Logic of Belief, p. 158-159
via Sentry Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 1, March 1996

“The chief strength of atheistic naturalism has lain in the notion that the material world needs no explanation, external to itself, that it is, indeed, a perpetual motion machine, which had no beginning and will have no end. But when we take the Second Law of Thermodynamics seriously, we can no longer hold to this doctrine. The universe as we know it, by the aid of modern science, could not have originated without the action of a creative Source of energy outside itself, and it cannot be maintained without it. But a creative Source of energy outside the natural order is God."