God Particle

The scientists are at it again. They have tried to limit God to a particle, better known as the ‘Higgs Boson’, which apparently is the physicist’s holy grail to the building blocks of everything we became, and everything else in the universe, occurring immediately after the theoretical ‘big bang’. Wow, what a mouthful! And what a lot to swallow for a Christian, who believes fundamentally in God, and His creative nature. Apparently this particle can also move faster than the speed of light... slightly.

This presently unproven theory gives the atheist something to grasp in their quest to prove once and for all that they are right. The only problem for me is, who put the Higgs Boson particle there? Does it just appear from nothing, or will they start looking for something else which made it appear? I sometimes think we are too ‘clever’ for our own good, and this is one such example. For me, this discovery does not disprove the existence of God. How can it? Since (not if) God is the source of all living things, why is it not also the source of this badly named ‘God Particle’? What about the verse in John 1:2-4 “He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind”.

My faith is left unchanged with this recent scientific news ‘breakthrough’, and I cannot see how it can disprove the very nature and being of our God, and therefore the reality of His Son Jesus Christ, who is the baby in the manger, and the whole and only ‘reason for the season’ of Christmas. Maybe then we should rename the new particle, the ‘Higgs Bozo’!