With every beginning comes an end. Sound like an introduction to Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities?” Well, not quite. On Oct. 27, I wrote a blog post about the possibility of science eventually disproving religion entirely. Yesterday, scientists came a step closer to proving one of the most highly controversial subjects: The Big Bang Theory.
Nov. 9, Fox News:
A miniature Big Bang was created Sunday at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), as the world’s most powerful atom-smasher successfully entered a new phase of exploration.
The particle accelerator at the CERN laboratory near Geneva smashed together lead atoms for the first time, to produce temperatures a million times hotter than those found at the heart of the sun.
When reading over this story, I, of course, remained skeptical. Although I can not solve a physics equation to save my life and have no room to debate against their evidence, the whole concept behind replicating the Big Bang Theory in a lab bewildered me. Shortly after hearing the news story, I thought back to the words of Jewish physicist Albert Einstein.
“Strange is our situation here upon this earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose.”
Einstein, a man who discovered that time wasn’t constant, must have known that proving such controversial topics in the name of science has it’s flaws.
After all, Einstein said, “People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
Scientists may have proven that there is sufficient evidence to prove that the Big Bang Theory occurred, which I am a firm believer in to some extent, but, in retrospect, something had to have come before the Big Bang Theory to lead up to the event. My question remains, even if scientists did replicate the Big Bang Theory where does science and religion go from here?
I leave you with a final quote from Albert Einstein that I found suitable for this post:
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
Please note: Although this is my personal opinion, I’d like to hear yours on this topic as well.
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