Here’s my own experience with the quashing of the discussion. While I was a Mechanical Engineering student at Kansas State University, I took a class called Fundamentals of Thermodynamics. Entropy was a major portion of the curriculum. During the class, I asked the professor to talk about the ramifications of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (Entropy) upon the discussion of origins. Then I quoted from the class text book,

“The final point to be made is that the second law of thermodynamics and the principle of the increase of entropy have philosophical implications...If all processes known to us have an increase in entropy associated with them, what is the future of the world as we know it?...Quite obviously it is impossible to give conclusive answers to these questions on the basis of the second law of thermodynamics alone. However, the authors see the second law of thermodynamics as man’s description of the prior and continuing work of a creator, who also holds the answer to the future destiny of man and the universe.” (page 248 of Fundamentals of Classical Thermodynamics)

The professor did not want to discuss the statements. In fact, the professor scorned me for bringing up religion.

Steve Hill

p.s. Dr. Bock, I had you for some Greek classes in the late 80's