What is the science behind the first day of creation?

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Sadly, the sun was not created yet. We tried to explain the chemical composition of the sun but it was not made on this day, and thus rendered our explanations redundant.
 
They’re not so much ideas, as they are concepts. The goal is to find scientific concepts that relate to Genesis 1:1-6. I’ve found a few concepts already, now I just need elaboration on them for clarification.
 
My guess is that, after the Big Bang, particles travel away but as the process is not 100% efficient, some of them cluster together, due to local gravity forces, and form stars, solar systems, planets, etc. Both matter and energy are at play in the process.
 
My belief is that what is behind the first day of creation in the Genesis account concerns God’s creative activity which is theology and not really science except insofar as what might be said was created in the beginning. Science studies creation which is consequent to creation and so is the study of thermodynamics. I’m not a believer in the human story and theory of the Big Bang and the consequent cosmological evolution of the physical universe from a singularity. What I believe is that in the beginning from Genesis 1:1-2, God created out of nothing the heavens or what is called space today and the simple elements or what science calls baryonic matter. These simple elements are composites of form and matter (I’m an adherent to the Aristotelian/Thomistic hylemorphic structure of material substances) like the heavens and comprise the parts of elemental atoms such as protons, neutrons, electrons and their various more simple quantum parts as well as the forms of elemental atoms too such as what we have on the periodic table. The earth and the waters of Gen. 1:1-2 represent the creation of these simple elemental atoms and elemental parts as well as possible mixtures or compounds of elemental atoms at this time. I don’t believe the physical universe started out from an explosive fiery and hot ball or singularity such as in the theory of the Big Bang but it was cold and dark in the beginning. Then from verse 3, God created light which is a stunningly amazing phenomenon of the natural world. Here, I believe God created and bestowed various accidental forms on previously created photons or what science calls the energies of photons or God created and bestowed on electrons various energies or accidental forms which they released as photons and light. This first day and the creation of light in the Genesis narrative may also have been and I believe so to be the beginning of the formation of galaxies and stars by God’s creative activity from the elements he created in the beginning from verses 1-2.
 
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theunworthyservant said:
For a biology project, we are asked to provide the science behind the first day of creation (Genesis 1:1-6). A hint was given and said that the law of thermodynamics is correlated to the first day of creation. How does the law of thermodynamics correlate to the first day of creation and what is the science behind Genesis 1:1-6?
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Genesis is a book of the Bible. It is a revelation. A revelation is top-down, where God reveals something to man.

Science concerns man revealing something about God through study (though this is also impossible without God giving man reason).
 
Light only manifests itself visibly when it reflects off a solid object…light is everywhere as electromagnetic radiation…

If you limit yourself to what is visible to humans, there is a WHOLE LOT you are missing!

I have always been impressed that the Genesis order of creation seems to match modern discoveries concerning the origins…support for the divine inspiration of the early writers!
 
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Light only manifests itself visibly when it reflects off a solid object…light is everywhere as electromagnetic radiation…

If you limit yourself to what is visible to humans, there is a WHOLE LOT you are missing!
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I’m not sure I agree with your use of the word light. Sure, light is a form of EM radiation, but never have I ever heard the other ends of the EM spectrum – gamma rays and radio waves – referred to as light. Scientifically speaking, light refers to visible light. If light is something that reflects off a solid object, for example, then gamma rays wouldn’t be, since they cut straight through materials like glass and a wall, but you have also said that it is EM radiation, which gamma rays are. Am I making sense? Or perhaps I’m misunderstanding you.
 
I should have been more specific…light is a form of EM Radiation…since those who wrote Genesis didn’t understand much in the way of physics, the statement “let there be light” could be read as their ‘best approximation’ of what happened…it’s how I have presented it in both physics and religion classes…

Thatg my be where the op’s teacher is going with the question. I think the deliberately vague aspect is to get the OP to THINK…
 
Ultraviolet and infared are light are they not? Perhaps visible light to other creatures but not to us. It is always interesting to see what paths a single thought leads us down.
 
To the OP
Even though I doubt this was supposed to be a group project I am interested what direction you chose and how you did.
 
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