Creation Moment 7/6/2021 - The Spinning & Balance

 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.

Job 26:7

 

"Imagine opening a door to a room and seeing a plate spinning on a stick with a spin rate that makes it wobble. Then imagine you shut the door and go back in time three minutes. What would you expect to see when you open the door the second time? The plate’s wobble would be less pronounced, perhaps even unnoticeable. Why?

Because going back in time would allow you to see the plate spinning faster. In other words, back then it had more energy that would’ve added stability to the spin.

Now apply this scenario to our solar system. If we were able to go back in time a billion hypothetical years, would we see the solar system in a better balance—a more perfect state of balance—than it is today? The issue that makes this question perplexing is this: Our solar system is currently in a relatively perfect state of balance. The system is finely tuned now. Wouldn’t even a small amount of time have disrupted this perfection?

Systems don’t gain balance over time, they lose it. Disruptions on average overwhelmingly destabilize systems. Like the twirling plate, things are slowly but surely going out of balance. Entropy, erosion, and decay slide incessantly down the slope toward chaos, and these rates are largely estimable. Change can be slowed but not stopped. 

Q: What does the spinning plate scenario point to? 

A: If our solar system is in perfect balance now, any change in one direction or the other is almost certainly a movement toward less

balance. 

A thousand elapsed years equals a thousand years of constant change. A billion years would mean that much more change, and Earth and our solar system simply do not reflect that amount of change. Incessant change points to recent creation. Our solar system is in perfect balance now because it was set up in that state a short time ago." ICR