In the Beginning was Information

If one tried to explain the actual creative acts in terms of the lawsof nature, one would very soon be trapped in an inextricable net ofspeculations. This holds both for creationists and for supporters ofevolution. The latter endeavour to explain the origin of life bymeans of laws of nature, but nobody has yet been able to do this!We therefore conclude: All the laws of nature have only been inoperation since the completion of creation.If God is the Creator of the laws of nature, then He Himself is notsubject to them. He can use them freely, and can, through hisomnipotence, limit their effects or even nullify them. The miraclesdescribed in the Bible are extraordinary events where the effects ofparticular laws of nature were completely or partially suspendedfor a certain period or in a certain place. When Jesus walked on thewater (Matthew 14:25-33), He, as the Son of God and Lord ofeverything, nullified the law of gravity. We read in Matthew 24:29that “the heavenly bodies will be shaken”(this could also be translatedas “the forces of the heavens will be shaken” ) when Jesuscomes again. In the language of physics this means that the presentfinely tuned equilibria of the various kinds of forces in the universewill be changed by the Creator, with the result that the orbits of theearth and the moon will become entangled and the stars will seemto move erratically: “The earth reels like a drunkard, it sways like ahut in the wind” (Isaiah 24:20).The moment that historical questions (e. g. about the origin of theworld and of life) or future events (like the end of the earth) areconsidered, then N10a is entirely useless.2.4 The Relevance of the Laws of NatureR1: The laws of nature provide us with a better understandingof natural phenomena and events. Without the laws of nature wewould have had a very limited knowledge of the physical, chemical,astronomical, and biological processes occurring in the worldaround us. The progress of science mostly relies on the fact thatfundamental principles are identified and classified, even when differenteffects are studied.34