About this “Big Bang” machine they have made underground to do sciency stuff? What do you think? I was just reading about it, and I, for one, am really not sure that this is a good idea. Yeah, I am all for science and I am sure that we will learn loads of valuable information from this particle accelerator/collider. But here are some issues I have with it:

1) Spending 4 billion dollars to build this thing when billions of people in the world are starving? Seriously?

2) If you want to learn more about the universe, try prayer. Or reading the Bible. I have recently come to understand and believe that God is behind everything. Every tiny particle in the Universe, and there is no way you are ever gonna understand it without him.

3) Apparently some people think it will cause “mini-black holes” and destroy Earth, the Sun, the moon, ect. Who knows if this could happen, but it sounds pretty terrifying to me. When you are faced with a choice to build something that might cause the solar system to be sucked into nothingness or not build it, the choice seems a no-brainer to me. Let’s try to shoot for no black holes, guys.

4) It is run/worked on by some guys who are huge d-bags. I was reading an qoute by one of them, somebody who is notably anti-religion, saying that they are going to “prove to everybody, once and for all, that the universe was started by the Big Bang”. Really? Is that what you’re gonna do? Run all the little tests you want, I doubt that it will make much of a difference how I or anybody else views God. Look, I don’t know if the Big Bang actually happened and formed the universe. But I know that if that is how it worked, God was behind it.

So I know how the people who built it feel about it. I know how I feel about it. I know how Dan Brown feels about it. I just wonder how God feels about this. What does he think of people trying to replicate his work? Trying to prove he doesn’t exist? Trying to catch him in a pickle? I wonder if he laughs at us or if he gets furious. I wonder if any of these scientists considered God before making this machine. I wonder if any of these scientists believe in God at all.

That’s another thing. Can you be a scientist, a pure scientist, and still be a Christian? Can you believe both in CERN and the Bible? I don’t know. I love science. I love space and dinosaurs and biology and the pure, true laws that govern physics. But I love God above all. Does that make me an oddity? Jack and Locke fight over this often, so at least I know I am not the only one.

What do you think?