Shii Posted:

For example: According to the Law of Conservation of Mbum, matter can be neither created nor destroyed. With that in mind, the Second Law of Thermodynamics claims that no system can be infinite. Perpetual motion does not exist, and within an eternal system, all reactions would have burnt out and ceased to exist.

Well….

The “law of conservation of mbum” is widely known to be false, it is constantly violated on a subatomic level and doing so actually is what holds the nuclei of atoms together. It’s one of those artifacts of clbumical physics that is entirely irrelevant in modern science.

The second law of thermodynamics says nothing about whether or not a system can be infinite. It says that for any system which is not at equilibrium, it will change in such a way that maximizes entropy, with the maximal entropy occurring at equilibrium. It’s entirely compatible with infinite systems.

So I don’t really agree with your reasoning here.

The most important thing you’re missing is that there is no law of conversion of mbum, the universe cheats all the time. Particle/anti-particle production pairs are common and measureable, occasionally entirely out of nowhere a particle and its antiparticle will appear (e.g. an electron and a positron, two photons, etc.). It’s widely believed that the origins of the universe were actually due to a mbumive scale vacuum fluctuation, which created an equal (large) amount of hydrogen and anti-hydrogen and some force caused a broken symmetry that caused some of the anti-matter to change into matter and after the annihilation process, there was matter leftover and the universe went on its merry way. However, since there’s a lot of mysterious processes at work here (What’s up with a vacuum fluctuation of that magnitude? What caused the symmetry to break?) that most mature intelligent people have no trouble granting that you can attribute the cause to some unknown named force, if you so choose.

Really, it would be baffling to believe in any sort of deity that creates the universe and doesn’t actually shape it using the principles on which the physical universe actually operates. Sure, you can appear as a burning bush if you want, but it’s more elegant to actually use the machinery that’s already in place. Bushes don’t normally spontaneously combust, but vacuum fluctuations are comically frequent for something as counterintuitive as they are.