YES, VIRGINIA…THERE’S A GOD…
(…but it may just be a…particle…)

Among this year’s Nobel prizes awarded was one to a professor of physics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, for his long posited theory about there being a single “god particle” out there…somewhere…as the progenitor or source of everything in this universe, including all our life forms.

Long elusive for the better part of fifty years, the existence of that “god particle” was finally just confirmed by the worker-bee scientists operating that super accumulator/collider facility CERN in Switzerland, finally vindicating the good professor’s theory which, until that confirmation from CERN, was not much accepted as a valid one. Now, of course, thanks to CERN and Nobel, all its doubters are busy gulping down their ration of …crow. Such is life in the field of physics. Nevertheless, our congrats to that professor.

While this may have resolved a lot of argument and contention among physicists, this development is most likely have both theists and atheists up in arms because, the existence of such a particle, raises serious questions about the validity of either or both of them. How will they be able to reconcile this “god-particle” with their respective views about divinity?

Our various religions will have to figure out how to reconfigure their doctrines around this extreme micro-nano entity. Sunday School teachers may soon have to respond to some girl- child’s question with…yes, Virginia, there’s a God…but it may be a …particle…or some such. Another problem will be with any attempts to revise the Lord’s Prayer with…our Particle, which art…. which just won’t quite have the same  uplifting effect. A host of other parts of religious litany will find it extremely awkward to deal with it as well.   

As for atheists, these won’t be any better off. How can you deny something that science has proven to exist? About the only option for them will be to say…okay, so there’s a particle that’s the source of everything…why does that make it “divine”? It simply is…what it is.

Still…all of this leaves us with one unanswered question…what or how did that “god particle” come to be?  The only thing that comes to mind is to quote from an old cartoon character named Popeye whose refrain was…I am what I am!

That’s about the only answer we’ll ever get to that question.

CENTURION