Posted on 07/08/2012 6:10:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It doesn’t make any difference in my mind. If God decided to create the Universe with M-branes spawning Big Bangs, who am I to tell Him he cannot?
I *do* have a background in Physics and my prediction is that we haven’t even begun to discover the totality that is existence. I see nothing that precludes a belief in God, though I think God has more than a few surprises in store for all of us.
Talk about utterly confused pseudoscience where they can’t even get their lies straight. 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 (before that, atheistic scientists thought that the universe was eternal and was always there; but the red shift from light emitted by the stars forced them to adopt the religious man’s theory). These scientists still can’t figure out so-called “dark matter” anyhow, so if their particle of worship exists or exists not really is scratching the surface of any physics model.
Our living world is driven by information and involves an information system (RNA/DNA) which is analogous to http/html/xml, and molecular equivalents of every basic part of a modern computer as well as computer networks. No particle could cause all of that. Information and intelligence do not just sort of happen or form up out of inert materials due to the action of static electricity or wind.
The Higgs-Boson particle may explain why matter exists, but it doesn’t explain why life exists.
Neither. It really doesn’t have squat to do with religion, and the same is true of science in general.
IIRC, the only reason the Higgs Boson is referred to as the “God” particle is because of a 1993 book. The author wanted to call the it the “God dammed particle”, but the publisher decided that was a bad idea.
As I understand it the particle explains why matter has mass. Not why it exists.
Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner. The Higgs Boson particle has nothing to do with religion (although the nickname the “God Particle” was sure to offend some).
Here is an short video explaining Higgs Boson in layman’s terms. I found it helpful.
http://www.wimp.com/higgsboson/
Even if it is discovered, then they still need to explain how it came to existence. To go from nothing to something requires some form of creation. Thelis discovery, if true only explains that something exists...
Nachmanides wrote about it in his commentary on Genesis in the 13th century. He wrote that, a moment after creation, the universe was the size of a mustard seed, and matter congealed out of it as it expanded.
I'd been thinking that self-assembly was pretty much inherent in matter ~ from the clustering of quarks up to the joinder of DNA and the production of RNA.
It's a regular old universe of machines ~ fantastic machines ~ marvelous machines ~ every one of which is connected in some way to all the others.
Alfred Hansson - To the contrary, Th Lord Jesus abundantly appealed to logic and reason in determine what was right, and Paul, as his manner was, “reasoned out of the Scriptures,” (Acts 17:2) or appealed to natural revelation, that of creation attesting to a Creator.
The Scriptures do not demand blind faith, but do call for faith based upon evidence, and which is confirmed with reality, and then calls for more steps of faith.
When you marry, you are also taking a step of faith, based on evidence, which you hope was warranted. Jesus said and did things that provided warrant for a step of faith in belief in Him, and which results in experiencing changes in heart and life which correspond to promises made to those who trust and obey. And also the negative realization due to disobedience. But which is tested as it must be, which requires patience, which is recompensed. Thus the believer sees his faith confirmed, while awaiting yet future realization of its promises.
As a born again believer for over 30 years, working in an actual faith-ministry (not a fund raiser) in which we really have had to see God answer prayer, bless the Lord, i can affirm that Jesus has “shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs,” )Acts 1:3) in both ways. And while He also allows challenges to my faith, that makes the realization more precious. Thanks be to God.
I agree. If He could speak it all into existence, then He could surely ensure every last particle/non-particle was suited to His creation. So many think that Man's puny grasp will settle the debate, but they ignore that everything that is discoverable will only prove that it exists and that we can either figure out the purpose or not have a clue - God says "I AM" and Man tries to discover whether or not He exists. 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).
Shouldn’t it happen spontaneously before our eyes then, instead of via the laborious process that science only can describe?
Spontaneously? Try sex ~
1:1 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
1:2 - And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
1:3 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
1:4 - And God saw the light, and it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Maybe its just me but this sure sounds like it could be describing the Big Bang in my mind.
The Higgs-Boson particle may explain why matter exists, but it doesn’t explain why life exists.
This distinction is exactly correct and completely missed by the author.
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