Is there really a "God particle"?

For those, like me, who are confused by the language of scientists who spend their time figuring out the invisible world of the atom, their occasional news reports of quarks and neutrinos, weak forces and other phenomena may seem like more science fiction than science. But it's all very real and it gives the rest of us a rough idea of how complicated are the most basic elements of the world that God made.

Now, that phrase, "God made", is as much a source of controversy as the nature of sub-atomic particles and their interaction with each other. The idea that we should assume a Creator from the complexities of the creation is thought by many to be "unscientific", belonging instead in the realm of faith. Presumably faith, for many critics of Intelligent Design, is thought to be something we "just believe" without much in the way of objective evidence.

So scientists of the atom, and of the physical forces that make our universe work, continue to explore answers to what holds all this together and what makes the cosmos what it is. A recent study was hoping to uncover what some called the "God particle", so-called because this particular bit of matter is thought to hold the secret of how everything else "holds together" and makes the universe work as it does.

I realize that the scientists could explain that last part a lot better than I just did, but that seems to be the gist of it, from what I read in the news reports. Well, good luck to them, but it might be a lot simpler for the rest of us to take the Bible at its word that God did indeed make this world as He says He did. As for the "glue" that keeps things together, Paul gave us a wonderfully profound statement when he said that Christ, the incarnate Word of God, is the full expression of God's wisdom and power, in Whom "all things hold together" (Colossians 1:17).

I wish he had said just a little more about that, but for now such knowledge belongs in the realim of the unrevealed information that God has not chosen to make known. ("The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law." Deuteronomy 29:29)

God has revealed all we need to believe and obey Him. Other things we try to figure out by the "scientific method". But even then, we've learned about things like "photosynthesis" and "DNA". But who really knows exactly how such things work and why they do? And yet so many have come to accept that mankind understands enough about the universe that we don't really need belief in God to explain it all. Good thing for them that God is, at least for now, holding them together along with everything else.