Western religions hold to the state of permanent equilibrium as the state of existence for the Causative Force. They do so dogmatically. They refuse to release this concept for they feel it goes to the heart of their beliefs. But it does not go to the heart of their beliefs. It only goes to the heart of the means by which they retain control and power over their followers.
Permanent equilibrium is an irrational concept that contradicts what they profess.
It contradicts the idea that the Causative Force is all knowing, all powerful, and all present. If a force is all knowing, it would have to know how to increase its knowledge, or it wouldn't be all knowing. If a Force were all powerful, it would have to have the ability to increase its knowledge. Science, subconsciously, understands this paradox, this contradiction. As such, science has been rejecting western concepts of religion based upon the irrationality of the contradictory stands western religions have been taking.