Facs
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Second Law of Thermodynamics plays a tremendous role in the apologetic discussion and, today, plays an even greater role than in the last 30 years. I will tell you: even the Roman Church enjoyed and rejoiced that this principle was re-emphasized – although it was discovered about 100 years ago – because that means that the Catholic Church could give up making-ashamed the Protestant Fundamentalists, [with their] literal interpretation of the biblical story of creation and the Genesis counting of the years of the world, and accepted the probable year in which the present state of the world has started, namely five billion years before today. And I spoke to several scientists and they all said: there is great probability that the world as it looks today, started about five billion years ago, when, probably, the first great explosion started. Now this is scientific probability which can be changed by any new discovery in the valuation of the spectral analysis on which all this is based – on the relationship of movement and the different colors in the galaxies. But however this may be, let us suppose that the probability is very high and will be confirmed by further scientific researches. So the common presupposition now is that the present state of the world has started by a great explosion in the year five billion before Christ. Now what is gained for the doctrine of creation? I am astonished that the clever hierarchy in Rome was betrayed by this thing – usually they are not! The same physicists with whom I spoke said: of course, there might be this tremendous punctual concentration of reality – or almost punctual – out of which, then, the enlargement of the world came out. But they said: now how did it come to this concentration? We do not yet have a theory