Trying to make a big bang....

Today scientists have begun what is being called the "most ambitious experiment ever" as they shoot gaziollions of protons into a big tube and try to recreate the theorized "Big Bang."

Don't ask me to explain, I have a degree in political science, which means I can pontificate and theorize about political history; I have no talent for physics.

This whole thing reminds me of a joke our pastor told on Sunday, it goes something like this:

A scientist is having a discussion with God. He is explaining to God that as a group, scientists have figured everything out and God has become obsolete. He tells God, "we now know how you did everything, how you made the world, animals and people, and we no longer need you."

God listens very patiently, and when the scientist is finished, he says to him,

"Okay, I have heard what you had to say, and you make a compelling argument. Why don't we have a man-building contest?"

The scientist says, "No problem!"

But God replies, "But here's the deal, we're going to do this old-school, just like I did it when I made Adam."

And the scientist says, "okay."

And then the scientist reaches down and picks up a handful of dirt.

But then God interrupts him and says, "ah, ah, ah, get your own dirt."

My point is this, they may re-create the big bang, they may discover their theory is right. They may not. But if they discover that it happened, that their theories are right, that all those particles collided and mixed at just the right moment which in turn, created a cosmic reaction which then created this planet that we call earth, that does not mean the whole reaction was not caused by someone.

That is something that will never be proven, or dis-proven; it's simply a matter of faith.