According to BBC news, scientists working with the new atom smasher in Switzerland, known as the "Large Hadron Collider", have successfully created what they call a "mini big bang". They smashed atomic particles together in a way to produce the kind of mixture they believe was the result of the "Big Bang", a colossal explosion of matter that is believed to have taken place at the very beginning of our universe. In other words, they think they made a "little bang" to produce their own mini-universe stuff.
It's a great moment for them, no doubt, especially considering how much work it has been to make this atom smasher, so much larger and more powerful than any of its predecessors. And they had to stay with the project after it broke down in initial trials. But genius and hard work can accomplish a lot.
But now, hold on... this experiment was entirely the result of years of planning and human invention, carefully staged and executed in a machine that boggles the ordinary mind for its complexity. And its result produced this "mini big bang", to illustrate, they say, an event that took place billions of years ago to form the materials of our universe, from which all matter, living and non-living, got its start.
But "they" also say the original "Bang" happened as a result of natural forces, not being directed by any intelligent or creative Being. It just happened, and now it took an immense army of scientists, technicians, inventors, and workers of all kinds (not to mention money) to make a teensie little example of what "just happened"?
Are these scientists too blinded by their humanistic, rational beliefs that they can't see the obvious? If there was such a beginning to our universe, surely it couldn't require less intelligence to produce something infinitely greater than a "mini bang" that required a human intelligence and effort that was itself the result of centuries of human learning and experimentation. I can only agree with what the apostle Paul said of such men, who are "always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." (2 Timothy 2:7)
