The Not So Big Bang

If you are reading this, you survived. Congratulations. I never doubted it for a minute; although some did. I’m not alone in my joy to be here today. Good Morning America greeted their viewers last Wednesday with glee. They were glad to have made it, too; glad they were still alive.

If you missed the controversy last week, let me bring you up to date. There is a whole bunch of scientists from a whole bunch of countries trying to recreate how the universe was formed. They performed a really important test last week. They are ultimately trying to recreate the supposed "big bang" that originally started the whole thing off.

The problem with that is that if one big bang started things, another big bang could, well, end things. Since we are dealing with scientific minds, it is much more complicated than that. My version is the Arkansas version.

Let me quote their version, from an Associated Press story in Geneva, Switzerland.
"The world’s largest atom smasher passed its first test Wednesday as scientists said their powerful tool is almost ready to reveal how the tiniest particles were first created after the ‘big bang,’ which many theorize was the massive explosion that formed the stars, planets, and everything."

In laymen’s terms, twenty years of research have gone into building a $10 billion dollar gizmo. The gizmo is a 17 mile long tunnel along the Swiss-French border.

Wednesday, during a test run, a beam of protons were fired clockwise around the tunnel. Then they fired a beam counterclockwise. Eventually, the beams will be filled with more protons, and fired at almost the speed of light in opposite directions. The tunnel is a vacuum, and is colder than outer space. At four different points inside the tunnel, huge magnets will cross the beams and make the protons collide.

The scientists are looking for what they term "hidden dimensions" of space and time. They are looking for what is sometimes called the "God particle," because they think it gives mass to all other particles, and therefore gives matter to the make up of the universe.

Well. We finally have something we can agree on. I could have saved those scientists twenty years of their lives and billions of dollars.

They don’t have to look for a God particle. All they have to do is look for God. A "particle" didn’t give mass to everything else. A particle didn’t make up the universe.

It amazes me that highly intelligent people will study microscopic particles in depth, and theorize that by exploding those tiny things, everything about the universe could develop.
Yet they reject that an intelligent being could have created the universe.

Talk about faith the size of a mustard seed. You could move mountains with the faith those scientists have. But, unfortunately, you can’t create mountains with their kind of faith...not from those itty-bitty particles that just all of the sudden exploded from nothingness and created every living and breathing and thinking thing in the world.

There are people that are scared the world will be destroyed as the scientist continue their tests. They believe if one big bang created us, the testing to make the next big bang will destroy us.

I am not worried in the least. The scientists can send their little protons around and around their big expensive race track all they want. They can spin them, magnetize them, freeze them, collide them, vacuum them or do whatever else they want to them. But they are wasting their time.

They aren’t going to discover a tiny particle that can do what only God did. Nor are they going to discover the beginnings of the universe. The universe didn’t begin with a bang. It began with "In the beginning, God."