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Is the World Running Down?: Crisis in the Christian Worldview

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Gary North details in this book the modern defense of 6-day creationism by evangelical theologians using the second law of thermodynamics (entropy), and the use by New Age theologians (such as Jeremy Rifkin) of this principle of physics to defend the view that the world and its resources are inevitably running out. North gives cogent arguments that 1)the universe is not a closed system, since it is dependent upon God for its life, sustenance, and replenishment; 2) the resurrection of Jesus Christ has tremendous implications for the physical creation, since the covenant blessings of God can and will rest on the physical world He has made, as men and nations are converted to the gospel of Christ; and 3) the employing of the logic of the law of entropy by New Age theologians is merely a smokescreen to disguise the socialistic/communistic tendencies of those who seek ultimate control of the world and its resources. Those who would refute evolutionism, as well as those who would incline toward the conrol of the world and its resources must reckon with Dr. North's sound reasoning and arguments. John Unger, June 20, 199

In this interesting and well-written book Dr North explains how entropy (the idea that everything is slowly, but surely running down, as the universe cools) is by Christ's resurrection beginning to be reversed. The idea is that, as people are transformed by the Gospel, they transform the world around them by faithfully obeying God Law. North chides the creation science movement for its pessimistic eschatology of premillennialism, saying it gives too much away to the evolutionists. Redemption in Christ redeems not only the souls of the saved, but all aspects of society, as believers live out their faith in all areas of their lives. I agree with this. But I am unable to give the book 5 stars because of North's confusion about Covenantism and the role of the Mosaic Law in the life of believers today. He tries to put Christians under Moses to exercise their God-given dominion. He seems to totally ignore the book of Hebrews, which teaches plainly that the Old Covenant is over, and that we are under the New Covenant, which has its own Law. But this book still deserves to be more widely read.