The God Particle

The God Particle is popular name for the Higgs boson and is named for Peter Higgs who suggested such a particles existence in 1964. He and others don’t like the name. Leon Lederman writing a book on it called it the “goddamn particle” until his editor slapped him upside his head and suggested “the God Particle” instead.

The God particle, Higgs bosom, explain why particles have mass—which in turn explains why we exist. As they say without bosom, the universe would have no physical matter just energy.

This idea in turn has caused certain cosmological thinkers to believe this explains away God theories and gives us a self-sufficient story of creation sans religion; or this physics makes God obsolete.

So here we go again with the science versus religion debates. These debates have always seems illogical and just plain silly to me. Only small minded people, religionists and scientists alike, seem to buy it has to be either or rather than both and.

So if the Higgs bottom explains the big bang theory so what? Who or what caused the big bang or the mechanism of it? I still go with the prime mover or first cause theories from Aristotle and Plato and Aquinas…

I am all for scientific and logical thinking; I believe God gave us brains and we should use them and trust where they lead. When it comes to God, I do not believe God can be proved or disproved, it is a belief which also can be perfectly rational as any scientific or logical base; they all begin with assumptions.

I like rational religion and ration thinking of all types to help us make sense of the world around us. I am often surprised by both religionists and scientists who ignore even their own disciplines and jump to strange conclusions. So many scientifically trained folk, like doctors, often rely upon more on anecdotal material versus scientific study.

I once read an article in a religious magazine from the Reformed Church entitled, “There is too much thinking going on in the modern church.” I would suggest the opposite and would not limit that to the church.

It appears to me today that we live in the information age where folk have lots and lots of data but they don’t process it for smots (yeah, it isn’t a word but you get my drift I hope. We do not appear to be very good thinkers today.

Science and religion are perfectly compatible and complementary just like men and women; but then a lot of folk don’t believe that either.