In physics there are Laws of Thermodynamics. In these there are a few laws regarding Entropy. These laws seem to suggest that the universe if left to itself would always move to a state of disorder. Stephen Hawking explained these ideas like this:
"It is a matter of common experience that disorder will tend to increase if things are left to themselves. One has only to stop making repairs around the house to see that! The explanation that is usually given as to why we don't see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table is that it is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics. This says that in any closed system disorder, or entropy, always increases with time. In other words, it is a form of Murphy's law: Things always tend to go wrong! An intact cup on the table is a state of high order, but a broken cup on the floor is a disordered state. One can go readily from the cup on the table in the past to the broken cup on the floor in the future, but not the other way round."(2)
Callister goes on to suggest that just as things in this world, such as the cup, needs a higher force, us, to keep it from a state of disorder; the universe needs a higher force to keep it from a state of disorder. I believe that one of the greatest examples of this is the creation of this world. What better example is there of things in disorder going to a state of order? And how is this possible? Well according to physics, the laws of thermodynamics, and entropy this can't happen by itself. An external force must be applied. A higher power.
Just some food for thought.
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1. Main idea was taken from The Infinite Atonement by Tad R. Callister.
2. Hawking, Brief History of Time, 144-145.
