I am not a scientist, I am an engineer. Engineers take science principles and solve problems.
Science involves observations and theorems, we see something in nature, and then we develop a reason for this behavior.
Example, a doctor examines you and says
Observation - You have cancer growing in your body
Theorem - You are going to die in 3 months
In general, observational science and the bible do not have a conflict, it is when we get to theorems that we have a conflict.
Observer bias is the term we give that shapes the theorem, in general scientists attempt to remove observational bias through test methodologies. An example would be that something disappears in a show. If you don't believe in magic then, it disappeared due to magic is not a possibility, so you search for alternative causes.
So if God did it is not a possibility then scientists will search for different explanations that do not include God as a possibility. If questioned they would say that there is no God, just like you might say that magic trick was an illusion because you don't believe that magic is a possibility.
So if we take the above example of the doctors report and apply a God possibility then you may get a "you are going to die in 3 months unless you are healed by God". You often hear this stated as "it would take a miracle".
So let's take the first case, I submit that the second law of thermodynamics suggests that a God exists.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that the state of entropy of the entire universe, as an isolated system, will always increase over time. The second law also states that the changes in the entropy in the universe can never be negative.
This means that in a closed system (our universe for this example) the system tends to chaos. Goes from a higher order to lower order. A silly example is an explosion. An explosion i.e, things going from a single point of order to a widespread point of disorder. You never have an explosion and a cake (higher order) appears on the table. However if you have a cake on the table and you have an explosion you have stuff on the walls (lower order)
We can see by what's known as the red shift that our universe is expanding, and therefore going to a lower order. So where did the order come from? Simply put "a force outside the system". People who believe in the bible say that that outside force was God.
Occam’s razor (also known as the ‘law of parsimony’) is a philosophical tool for ‘shaving off’ unlikely explanations. Essentially, when faced with competing explanations for the same phenomenon, the simplest is likely the correct one.
So in our observational bias which includes God, we say the simple answer is God made the order. But if you preclude God then you are forced to find some other explanation.
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The universe was created in 16 Billion years or 7 days, I say both.
