The recent Higgs Boson discovery [also known as "The God Particle"] has been all over the news as of late.
The following are a few articles and resources that I trust will help answer questions you may have about this recent development:
- Higgs Boson Discovered! by William Lane Craig
- Reasonable Faith Podcast: The God Particle featuring William Lane Craig NEW!
- What is the God particle? at gotquestions.org
- You can find some great links offered by Luke Nix of Faith Thinkers here.
Courage and Godspeed,
Chad
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"Some people seem to think that the Higgs boson takes the place of God. In fact, however, Lederman called it “the God particle” for two reasons: (1) like God, the particle underlies every physical object that exists; and (2) like God, the particle is very difficult to detect!
I really like Lederman’s nomenclature because it highlights two aspects of God’s existence, first, His conservation of the world in being, and, second, the hiddenness of God. With respect to the first, according to Christian theology, God not only created the universe in being, but He upholds it in being moment by moment. Were He to withdraw His sustaining power, the universe would be instantly annihilated. Similarly, on a physical level, without the Higgs boson nothing would have any mass and the universe would be devoid of physical objects. (By the way, no fear that the Higgs boson supplants God in conserving the universe because the Higgs boson is itself a contingent particle, which decays almost as soon as it is formed, so that it does not exist necessarily, and the Higgs boson and the Higgs field themselves are the products of the Big Bang and so non-necessary and non-eternal.)"