When talking about creationism versus evolution in a physics and thermodynamics class that I teach to adults, I am asked which is true. I answer that after the Big-Bang, everything can be explained in science about energy and how matter reacts, except for life.
I present that for there to be a Big-Bang, then there had to be a singular point in time, no matter how infinitesimally small in length, that all matter and energy of the universe existed in a single point. That would mean that this creation well held every single atomic and sub-atomic particle in the universe including every single electron.
My classes start to visualize such a point in time and agree that this was how the universe was, void and without form. I then ask them that if all matter and energy existed at one point in space, then if it all existed together for even a fraction of a second then it was in a state of equilibrium and would never have exploded into what we now call the universe.
But according to thermodynamics, the only thing that could have upset this previously closed system that was in a state of equilibrium was an exterior energy force greater than this closed system's ability to absorb and to then equalize with this new energy source. The question is where did this new energy source come from if all of the energy in the universe already was in a state of equilibrium?
Some of my students get angry and say that I am preaching about God. I tell them that if there is a God, He can come here and present His own case on creation, I only teach science. This then brings all of the students to ask what then was this external energy source.
As I tell all of them that we cannot explain such an event as it does not fit into any physics of thermodynamics model that exists now, we cannot explain what happened there. Then that takes a position of faith on what they belief happened, and that had no place in the classroom.
The exact same situation comes up when there are questions about where the end of the universe is and whether or not the universe is expanding or contracting. I explain that for there to be some place so far out in space that the edge of the universe was just reaching it with light from the time of this above stated creation or Big-Bang, then everything around that point in space was utterly dark and extremely cold. This first ray of light would appear as a single point of light that would continue to grow over time until the entire area around this point in space was full of stars.
Almost all of my students then dismiss this idea as being a fable as they cannot comprehend a place in the universe where a single electron of matter has never occupied or passed through. Such a place would be a complete vacuum which is in itself by definition cannot exist.
Science cannot explain the creation of life, and faith reads no contradiction in anything that science discovers about man or the universe. Man needs faith in something for him/her to believe in. Faith in God requires believing that He is, and is a rewarder of those who seek Him. Faith in anything else makes man the center of the universe and needs no God other than himself.
Keep the faith.
Old Patriot
Good job. Keep up the good work.