Why the Universe is Based on Faith

Note that the Second Law depends upon an opposition of tendencies — toward and away from increasing disorder. It points one way, but if the capacity to restrain this law did not exist the law would be meaningless — because without this restraint nothing would exist.  As analyzed in other posts, we can see that such restraint depends upon the expectable specificity of an image. Note also that specificity and finitude are inseparable. In other words, the infinite is thwarted by finite specificity, which as analyzed in other posts, requires an image — with an image therefore being little more than success in the direction of preventing nonexistence.

Hopefully, the reader can now glimpse the astonishing identity between the subjective anticipation through time of an image and a tendency toward sustaining a finite state — in other words, survival.  And thus the futility of envisioning matter as having some sort of independence apart from mind. We can conclude that the structure and function of the brain staunchly supports our premise: that perception – more fundamentally the very presence of an image – is the event which by anticipatory faith restrains the effects of the Second Law. Consciousness therefore depends upon God – who, according to the Bible, is reliably “the same yesterday, today and forever.”[1]