Have you ever wondered how the theory of evolution measures up to basic laws of physics and other findings of true science? The following may surprise you.

The laws of thermodynamics

The first law of thermodynamics states: "Matter cannot be created or destroyed." So how did everything get started? Evolution has no answer to this whatsoever. Creation says simply that God made it all by outright miracle, and He made it so that it couldn't be added to or destroyed. This answer fits perfectly-and it's the only one available!

The second law of thermodynamics states: "Everything tends toward disorder." In other words, if you leave something alone long enough, it doesn't get better, it gets worse (e.g., decay, corrosion, "wear and tear," etc.). This is the absolute opposite of the theory of evolution, which says that everything is getting better and better all the time, evolving into higher, more complicated life forms. The Bible agrees with the second law of thermodynamics. "You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the Earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. They will perish, but You remain; and they will all grow old like a garment" (Hebrews 1:10-11).

The law of conservation of angular momentum

This law states: "If a spinning object explodes, the pieces that fly off will spin in the same direction." In other words, if an object spinning clockwise explodes, all the fragments will spin clockwise. This is a law. It always happens. This is bad news for the "big bang" theory!

If the big bang had actually happened, then everything, by law, should be spinning in the same direction-but it's not! According to evolution, all the planets in our solar system came from the sun, but Venus and Uranus are spinning backwards! There are 60 moons in our solar system, and many of them are also spinning backwards. Several are even orbiting backwards!

The age of the solar system: 6,000 years, or billions of years?

With the advent of lasers and atomic clocks, measurements of time, size, and distance are far more accurate than ever before. Did you know...

The sun burns off 5 million tons of gas per second. That means, of course, that the sun used to be bigger. If the biblical account of Creation is true, the universe and everything in it is about 6,000 years old. At the rate the sun is burning up, the difference between its size 6,000 years ago and its size now is negligible.-Good news for life on Earth! But at that same rate, the sun would have been so much bigger and therefore so much closer to Earth as "recently" as 20 or 30 million years ago that no life forms-not even bacteria, much less dinosaurs-would have been possible. Meanwhile, evolutionists contend the sun is about 4.7 billion years old, and that life on Earth began forming in the oceans about 3.4 billion years ago.

Newton's law of universal gravitation tells us that the bigger any two heavenly bodies are, the greater the gravitational pull between them, and as those bodies come closer to each other, the gravitational pull between them increases by the "inverse square" (e.g., at half the distance, the gravity is quadrupled). So a significantly older and larger sun would have exerted a significantly stronger gravitational pull, and Earth and the other planets could not have existed except in far more distant orbits. This fact creates more problems for the theory of evolution, because as the sun decreased to its present size and its gravitational pull diminished, the planets would not have been pulled in to smaller and closer orbits, but rather would have drifted into larger, more distant orbits.

Earth's magnetic field is getting weaker. Archaeological measurements show that Earth's magnetic field was 40% stronger 1,000 years ago than it is today. If Earth's magnetic field is caused by a decaying electric current in Earth's metallic core-the most plausible explanation-Earth could not be much older than about 10,000 years, or else that electrical current's original strength would have been large enough to melt the planet.

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are cooling off. Jupiter, for example, radiates about twice as much energy as it receives from the sun. Saturn radiates about three times as much as it receives from the sun. If the solar system were billions or even millions of years old, these five planets would have been dead cold a long time ago.

Saturn's rings are expanding. In other words, the "clouds" of particles (thought to be a mix of rocks, frozen gases, and water ice) that make up Saturn's rings are becoming larger and less dense. At the rate they are expanding, they would have dissipated long ago if the solar system were anywhere near as old as evolutionists contend it is."