Evidence of Higgs Boson 'God Particle' Disproves Religion or Supports Creation?

Christian Post ^ | 07/08/2012 | By Nicola Menzie

[the invisib1e hand]

The Boson must be Catholic because without it you can’t have Mass.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

There is a legend from the life of the famous Swiss mathematician, Leonhard Euler, an affirmed Christian, teaching mathematics in St. Petersburg, Russia.

However, his students had become fascinated by the atheism of the French philosopher Denis Diderot, also visiting St. Petersburg, and were thus less interested in studying advanced mathematics than in logically disproving the existence of God.

This annoyed Euler, so he was said to have written a complex closed mathematical formula on his blackboard, and told his students that it conclusively proved the existence of God, offering it with the idea that if they could logically disprove it, by the rules of mathematics, they would prove that God did not exist.

After analyzing every possible element of this formula, (which some have suggested was the quadratic formula), with possible flaws easily disproved by Euler, and failing miserably to find any error within, word got to Diderot, who went to check it out. However, since Diderot was not a mathematician, the formula was so much gibberish to him, so after much harrumphing, he left Russia.

I mention this to dispel any notion of the Higgs Boson proving or disproving anything, if it does indeed exist. For it is not for mere men to determine if God exists or not.

[onedoug]

Robert M. Hazen, “Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origins”

Belief in God without its relation to science really hobbles one in trying to explain either.

[daniel1212]

Interesting.
A poster theophile on the Post page writes,

The Holy grail for science is “The Unified Field Theory”, this “grail” would predict any outcome of science with certainty. The “ether theory”, and the “massXConstant,squared=energy” theory, for some was concluded with Einsteins MC2 demonstration with the bomb.

Ether theory is nothing new, Tesla’s florescent lights, radio, AC generation and transmission, were developed along it’s lines with uncanny predictability: From Teslas head, to a working model, with very little in between.

So the Ether theorists had some credibility after all! Better break out those 100 year old textbooks, and the Bible, there might be things we can learn without building giant hadron colliders

[Gamecock]

God is the God og the Higgs-Bosun too.

He knew it was there all along.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

What do you think — will evidence of the Higgs Boson particle give the Big Bang theory strength and weaken arguments for creation? Or is the recent potential discovery something that everyone, both Christians and non-theists, can celebrate?

We should be celebrating. God has given us another piece of His puzzle for creation.

[moose07]

The Boson must be Catholic because without it you can’t have Mass.

AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hee hee hee....[snort]

[The Sons of Liberty]

Funny how the atheists and the hip hollyweird types go out of their way to deny the existence of GOD. So they [say] they’ve found a sub-atomic particle - big deal. How do they explain that the particles, or anything, came into being?

[Steven Tyler]

Question: Who created the Higgs Boson particle??
Answer: God

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Looks like you’re the one throwing the scientists down the memory hole.

In 1930 Eddington wrote an article about his work in the Monthly Notes of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In 1933 his article was published in the Annals of the Scientific Society of Belgium.

In 1934 Lemaitre won the Francqui Prize.

In 1941 he was elected to the Royal Academy of Sciences & Arts of Belgium.

In 1953 he won the very 1st Eddington Medal awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society.

In 1984 a book was published about his work.

In 2000 another book was written about his work.

In 2011 Nature ran an article on him and his work.

He’s mentioned in nearly every historical book and article about the early universe, including website posts.

Even PBS has him on their website (horrors).

[KarlInOhio]

. It's almost as funny as watching a baseball game while on LSD (don't ask - we all have things in our pasts that we aren't proud of).

The baseball or the LSD?

Now I have this vision of George Will sitting on a couch with his eyes dilated and bow tie slightly loosened and askew just saying "wow!" over and over again.

[trebb]

. It's almost as funny as watching a baseball game while on LSD (don't ask - we all have things in our pasts that we aren't proud of). The baseball or the LSD? Now I have this vision of George Will sitting on a couch with his eyes dilated and bow tie slightly loosened and askew just saying "wow!" over and over again.

Both?

Many years (over 3 decades) ago, me and a buddy did some LSD and spent some time in a bar drinking beers and watching TV. We laughed ourselves to tears watching the antics of full-grown men swatting at a ball with a stick, then running their fannies off - and all so serious while at it. We attracted enough attention that severe paranoia set in and we had to leave.

[Olog-hai]

. . . now what scientists are you referring to? I threw nobody down the memory hole, least of all Arthur Eddington (a Quaker), who was Lemaître’s colleague. Just give my post a re-read . . .

[circlecity]

"The Higgs-Boson particle may explain why matter exists, but it doesn’t explain why life exists."

No, at best HB may explain HOW matter exists. That's all we can ever discern from science - HOW. Why is the exclusive province of God.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The Big Bang theory was thought of by a Catholic theologian (Monsignor Georges Lemaître), something that secular science wants to try to throw down the memory hole and make the public think they thought of it first...

[JoanVarga]

Paul wrote about it in the first century:

“He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”

Col: 1:17

[Olog-hai]

I said read, not quote (never mind quote in part and actually remove context). Secular (atheistic) science would still love to try to throw Lemaître down the memory hole because the man was not an atheist; the evidence for his theory was way too overwhelming, so they could not. I named absolutely no scientists, while you claimed I threw scientists down the memory hole.

[RobbyS]

Well, the thing is not actually a “particle,” but is just a piece in a puzzle that seems to fit in a hole in particle physics. Funny how things work, though. Astronomers invented epicycles to explain the apparent motions of the planets AS OBSERVED. Fit neatly, mathematically. Which is one reson why Copernicus revival of the heliocentric system didn’t get much traction at first. UNTIL, of course, Kepler broke through the prejudice in favor of circles and showed that the Planets move in elliptical orbits. AND observations with the telescope brought in more data to consider. Not much doubt that this is will not be the final word.