Read why here:
In the world of science, the excitement doesn’t mount much higher than the frenzy Wednesday around the announcement that scientists at the world’s biggest atom smasher may have found the “God particle.”
The discovery is called a boson, a class of sub-atomic particle, but the description stopped just short of confirming that it’s the long-sought Higgs boson particle.
While there are still questions to ask and research to do to confirm it is indeed the Higgs boson, physicists see massive implications to the discovery.
“It’s helping us understand the big universal question, which is what are we made out of,” says Philippe Di Stefano, a physics professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont.
One reason the discovery of the Higgs boson particle doesn’t matter at all is that it has nothing whatsoever to do with God – other than the fact that he made it just like he made everything else. In fact, it derives the name “God particle” from “goddam particle”, an epithet it acquired because it was so difficult to find.
So its discovery will bring us no closer to God than we were before. In fact, a four year old Christian girl who is convinced that little boys derive their weighty solidity from being constructed of slugs and snails and puppy-dogs’ tails rather than Higgs boson particles, is a good deal closer to the heart of reality than Peter Higgs who is an atheist.
*Snakes* and snails and puppy dogs tails, thank you very much! 🙂
When I first read of this Higgs bosun particle, I thought immediately of what the atheist, Steven Hawking wrote at the end of one of his books,(Big Bang for Dummies, written just for me), it went something like this:
“When we figure our the unified theory of physics, and we will, we will look into the face of God.”
If that scientific, atheistic, brilliant mind surmises such a thing, how much more it reinforces my faith, and my belief that He created all things, He is in all things, and all things were created for Him!
If Hawking only knew, we can look into the face of God already!