The way I understand it is: Scientists have spent billions of pounds on a piece of equipment called a Hadrom collider to look for a particle called the Higgs Boson in order to discover how the universe was fabricated; how from empty space we get the universe and us. The search started in 1964 nearly 50 years ago, so either they weren't looking very well or this is a particularly elusive particle.
It's good they've had a nice project to keep them going, but they really needn't have bothered. You see, a lot of us already know how the universe was formed from empty space, and how we came into being. There really is no search party required, no billion pound piece of equipment, and we've made no secret of it, the information is there for all to read in Genesis 1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said "Let there be light" and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light 'day' and the darkness he called 'night'. And there was evening, and there was morning - the first day.
etc. etc. until after 6 days you have a complete universe with humans and animals and plants and everything. Simple.
Simple that is if you actually believe God exists. If you don't I suppose you're back to your billion pound particle search. It seems to me though, assuming God doesn't exist, if it has taken us all this time and money to collide photons together in a massively complicated and expensive piece of equipment, that has been co-ordinated by some of the most brilliant minds on the planet over the last half century........How did this Higgs Boson manage to co-ordinate itself into colliding with the right particles, at the right time over 6000 years (or billions of years) ago in order to create mass which evolved into a living breathing universe? That blows my mind! I refer you back to my first sentence in which I excuse myself as a mere non-scientist, if that is something that seems completely reasonable to everyone else!
I think it is a massive faith that agrees particles colliding formed mass which made our beautiful, living, breathing, thinking universe. Far far more faith than to accept the account in Genesis 1. Genesis leaves us with no mystery to solve, no missing pieces to search for, just the re-telling of how the God who loves us made this world, made us in His image, in His living, breathing, thinking, image. He even explains that's what He's done! We think because we are like Him, we have beauty because we are like Him, we love because we are like Him! Can the Higgs Boson make the same claims? I think not.
The issue here is that Genesis is mere mythology, as is pretty much all of the Bible. The Scientists are searching for answers while you try and make them up as you go along.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, you aren't much of a Scientist. There is a video on my blog about the history of God if you're interesting, it is two parts and explains where your mythological beliefs are derived from. It's a few entries in I recall.
http://pugberto.blogspot.co.uk/
Thanks, took a look at the video, I suspected it would come up with the Babylonian accounts of many gods who created a world out of argument and destruction and people to serve them, who they were constantly angry with. I prefer the account of one God who created a world out of love with control and order and specific design and created people in His image to govern His creation.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you on one thing, I am not a scientist!
But I do believe there is evidence for God in as much as there is evidence that Jesus Christ did live and die and was resurrected, Jesus is God in human form, therefore God exists, therefore the account of creation in the Bible must be true.
Thanks for commenting.