Entropy And The Big Bang

Science today is faced with challenges in all areas but perhaps the area with the most challenge is Cosmology.  Just exactly how did the universe come to be?  Just how did life begin?  What was the first cause?   These are difficult questions and the reality is that how everything we see every day came to be is actually inexplicable even though scientists and atheists try to make it otherwise.  Mathematically it is impossible for DNA to occur randomly and DNA is necessary for life – any life.  This means that even the humble pond scum from which we are all descended according to science, could not have been a random creation.  But this is only part of the problem faced by scientists who are seeking an answer without accepting even the possibility of God’s existence or intelligent design.  The concept of the Big Bang has been a popular answer to the question of how everything started but even that theory ignores the question of “First Cause”.  

 
Still if we accept the Big Bang as a starting point, ignoring the obvious questions about space itself and the origin of that primordial spec of energy and accept that at some point there was a sudden expansion of heat and energy we are immediately faced with some interesting questions based on science or at least what scientists think is true.  The first question is “heat” because science tells us that this expansion of energy created enormous heat, many times the heat of the sun plus light. 

 Heat is generated by the movement of particles, but particles didn’t yet exist because they must have mass to exist and there was only a release of energy.  Now we know – at least technically – that subatomic particles do exist and these appear to be pure energy so perhaps it was these particles that generated that incredible heat.  But that brings us to the second problem and that is Entropy.  We find that Entropy is defined thus:

Entropy is a law of nature in which everything slowly goes into disorder.

The actual law of Entropy is more complicated and deals with atoms and uncertainty but at the Big Bang these things didn’t exist.  But some how all of this sudden energy began to divide and subdivide into the various forms of energy, take on mass and began to coalesce into electrons, protons, and neutrons meaning that chaos became organized.  Exactly how this chaos organized itself is a little unclear.  Of course light itself is a little strange since it acts as a wave and / or a particle but current thinking is that light has no mass when at rest but assumes mass when in motion   So perhaps that is how the energetic particles that make up the universe acquired the mass necessary for gravity and the other forces to act on them leading to the reverse entropy

But as we know observe the universe in its current state we do not see new suns and planets being formed, what we see is Entropy in action as stars and everything else in the universe slowly changing, eroding, and moving back into chaos.  But this isn’t the only strange thing about the Big Bang, which we are told created space itself and that raises the question of where did that primordial spec of energy come from in the first place?   Modern science is postulating many theories regarding this question but on close inspection these theories really beg the question and don’t actually answer it.

This brings us to the question of Mass.  Our universe is Mass oriented and Einstein demonstrated that Mass is constrained by the speed of light.  So where did the mass come from?  All of the particles that make up our existence have mass but were created after the Big Bang  At the instant of creation all of this energy and subsequent particles were limited by the speed of light.  We know that some forms of energy operate at light speed but not all particles and certainly not those mass oriented things we can observe every day.  We can then conclude that at some point all of the energy generated at the Big Bang slowed and coalesced into mass and our observable universe.

Where we are at this point is that no one really knows the first cause but apparently there was a sudden expansion of energy but why or how is a mystery.  Contrary to the Law of Entropy this energy organized itself into our known universe, which is now following the Law of Entropy and slowly declining into chaos.  It is known that everything in the universe is composed of identical electrons, protons, and neutrons, but why and how some organized themselves into living things is unknown.  How life came to be is unknown but what is known is that it requires DNA and that cannot be formed randomly.  But scientists are convinced that God does not exist and our universe was a random event whose beginning they can only hypothesize.

ENTROPY AND LIFE

Entropy is a very interesting concept, explained by science with some complicated mathematics.  But in its simplest terms entropy can be summarized as “nature tends from order to disorder”  This can be observed all around us as we see things deteriorate, iron rusts, leaves decay, even our bodies gradually decline eventually leading to death.  But the reverse isn’t true – disordered things do not organize themselves without some external force.  The typical teenagers bedroom does not reorganize itself without some external force.  So how did the universe organize itself without some direction?

Scientists – comfortable in their knowledge of all things – have explained the big Bang and the origin of the universe.  It seems at the beginning there was this primordial speck that contained all of the energy in the universe.  They are a little vague on exactly how this speck came to be or exactly where it was located since space did not yet exist, but that’s what they believe.  At that instant of the Big Bang all energy was released but in what form?  Apparently the energy was released in the form of protons, neutrons, and electrons. So the Big Bang was entropy in action since it went from order in the form of this primordial speck to disorder. 

But almost immediately the Law of Entropy was reversed because these energetic particles began to coalesce into atoms and then into molecules gaining mass in the process.  But with mass comes gravity so perhaps it was gravity – assuming of course that gravity is not a particle and that was the external force that reversed entropy.  Given that the Big Bang created the universe and everything it in and that no energy or particle was created after that, then gravity could logically be the external force.  But then what about everything else that came later?  What about life?  What about Dark Matter and Dark Energy?  These are theorized but unknown.

The origin of life has always been a problem for science and as science extends our knowledge of life and the universe the problem has gotten more complicated.  The idea that life began spontaneously through some cosmic particle impacting some random molecule in the sea has been abandoned.  Instead scientists have postulated “Pan Spermia” which postulates that life originated outside of our solar system and was introduced via a comet or meteor or some similar interstellar particle.  Of course this doesn’t really address the origin of life, it merely sidesteps the issue.  So the question remains – how did life begin?  The evolutionists believe that life began in the sea and all life evolved from that first self-replicating molecule, but what about the Law of Entropy?  Order can only come from disorder due to some external force but what external force created DNA?

The mathematicians have determined that DNA is so complicated that it is virtually impossible for this molecular structure to have been created randomly.  Yet life rests on DNA – even that first little paramecium and Pre-Cambrian pond scum which became human requires DNA.  Nevertheless the world of science presses on and essentially now we have seven theories describing how life began.

Theory 1 – The Electric Spark

This Theory rests on the Urey-Miller Experiment which demonstrated that an electric spark in an atmosphere rich in water, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen could have produced the “building blocks” of life.  Unfortunately the early atmosphere was hydrogen poor, so the fall back position was – maybe hydrogen from volcanoes.

Theory 2 – Community Clay

This idea comes from Alexander Cairns-Smith who suggests that organic molecules might organize themselves via the mineral crystals in clay.  These mineral crystals would have helped to organize these organic molecules into organized patterns that eventually led to organize themselves.

Theory 3 – Deep Sea Vents

This theory suggests that life may have begun through hydrothermal vents spewing key hydrogen rich molecules that were concentrated into nooks where mineral catalysts provided for critical reactions leading to the building blocks of life.

Theory 4 – Icy Start

This theory assumes that the oceans 3 billion years ago where frozen to great depths protecting the fragile organic compounds in the water from damaging ultraviolet light and cosmic particles.  This cold might have helped these organic molecules survive long enough for key reactions to happen.

Theory 5 – RNA World

Life requires Proteins and Proteins require DNA but mathematically it is virtually impossible for DNA to have formed randomly.  The answer might be – according to some scientists – RNA which can help create both proteins and DNA.  Of course how RNA came into being is unknown and some scientists say a spontaneous creation of RNA is unlikely to have happened.

Theory 6 – Simple Beginning

This theory suggest that instead of developing from complex molecules like RNA, life might have begun with smaller molecules interacting with each other in cycles or reactions leading to more complex molecules   These might have been contained in simple capsules similar to cell membranes evolving over time into more complex molecules that became the building blocks of life.

Theory 7 Pan Spermia

This theory simply side steps the question and suggests that life was introduced on the Earth via a meteor or comet impacts.  So even if this theory were true it doesn’t address how life originated elsewhere.

Yes these are very short summaries of very complicated theories but reading the complete theories doesn’t really add any meaningful data because they all assume order from disorder and are laced with qualifiers.  None of these theories really address the problem of DNA and how it could have been created through random processes.  The law of Entropy requires some external force for order to emerge from disorder and none of these theories actually explain even how these organic molecules came into existence. The assumption underlying all of these theories is that molecules have randomly combined to create these organic molecules.  These organic molecules have become more and more complex through random process until they became self-replicating.  These self-replicating molecules grew more complicated until they did the mathematically impossible and formed DNA and the pattern for life.  All that is missing is the admission that magic was involved. So the question regarding the origin of life remains open while the Atheists and Scientists reject anything resembling intelligent design.