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News: In Search of the God Particle
Posted on Tuesday, March 25 @ 10:46:40 PDT by Norman Voss |
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The biggest experiment in particle physics, the Large Hadron Collider, starts this summer in Switzerland. The goal is to find signs of an elusive particle called the Higgs boson—also known as the "God particle" because it might ultimately lead to a grand theory of the universe. What impact will the experiments have on our ideas of the cosmos and our place in it? To find out, NEWSWEEK's Ana Elena Azpurua spoke about science and religion with theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg at the University of Texas in Austin.
After this experiment, will we have a final theory of how the universe was created?
It is possible that this experiment will give theoretical physicists a brilliant new idea that will explain all the particles and all the forces that we know and bring everything together in a beautiful mathematically consistent theory. But it is very unlikely that a final theory will come just from this experiment. If had to bet, I would bet it won't be that easy.
As we come closer to developing an ultimate theory of the universe, how will this impact religion?
As science explains more and more, there is less and less need for religious explanations. Originally, in the history of human beings, everything was mysterious. Fire, rain, birth, death, all seemed to require the action of some kind of divine being. As time has passed, we have explained more and more in a purely naturalistic way. This doesn't contradict religion, but it does takes away one of the original motivations for religion.
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Re: In Search of the God Particle (Score: 1)
 by Starlight on Tuesday, March 25 @ 15:02:28 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | I thought this was an interesting article which reflects the mentality of someone who is purely naturalistic. I also thought it odd that this scientist could exclude entertaining the possibility of God when he makes a statement like this. “bring everything together in a beautiful mathematically consistent theory.” The scientist sees beauty in a mathematical consistent theory but doesn’t see God or intelligence in that beauty. Where does he suppose that the ability to see that beauty derived from? I’m sure he believes it came from natural causes which are provable in his mind.
He makes an assumption that religion was required to explain the unexplainable such as Fire, rain, birth , death. He thinks that as science unravels some of the physical mysteries around these unexplainables that religion will gradually disappear as it will have no use. This discussion seems somewhat pertinent to the current full Preterist debate that is driving some away from full Preterism as they see it as empty and of no use for answering any of our great questions that have driven the Christian belief system during the last 2000 years. Does the scientist have a valid point for us in religion and especially full Preterism to contemplate? Does our usefulness dissipate with greater knowledge of the world and the past unknown? Does a full Preterist understanding of Genesis to Revelation leave us empty and void after we have understood the message? Are we no better off than this atheist who essentially says “what is life”?
If science can answer the questions concerning the structure and dynamics of the Universe physically and biologically does that rule out God or does it reveal God? This is a question that will need to be continually answered as history progresses? Also how does this statement of his correlate with logic? “The more we learn about the universe the less sign we see of an intelligent designer.”
Isn’t it true that men of faith see God in the design of the Universe no matter whether we understand it well or not? Did all men lose their faith when Galileo and Copernicus turned the world upside down in their day? Did all men abandon God because some in science believe Darwin’s theory of natural selection is purely naturalistic? Or did men open their minds and inspect whether these things be true or not and if true what did that do to their worldview. If they ended up believing that Darwin’s natural selection makes sense did some adjust as well and decide that God’s hand was in the creation of that process.
As we move forward in history some now noticed that the scriptures actually were always speaking toward a covenant creation and not a naturalistic physical creation. So it seems the science guy misunderstood what he thought was the purpose of God and the Bible as it doesn’t really fit into his paradigm that he tried to pigeon hole for all believers.
Doesn’t this reveal a God who cared enough about his physical human creation to better it with freedom from their own imaginations?
Blessings
Norm
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