Can god be created by man?

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a science project of monumental proportions. Funded by over 23 nations at a total cost of nearly 8 billion dollars, the LHC is on a mission to discover new particles.

One of the most sought of these is the Higgs boson, also known as the God particle because, according to current theory, it endowed all other particles with mass. Or perhaps the LHC will find “supersymmetric” particles, exotic partners to known particles like electrons and quarks. Such a discovery would be a big step toward developing a unified description of the four fundamental forces—the “theory of everything” that would explain all the basic interactions in the universe. As a bonus, some of those supersymmetric particles might turn out to be dark matter, the unseen stuff that seems to hold galaxies together. http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jan/002

Essentially, the LHC is set to simulate the big bang. From this, scientists expect to produce ‘new’ particles, one of them being the Higgs boson. Without the Higgs field, electrons would have no mass, making atoms infinitely large. This predicament would have resulted in no earth, no us.

If scientists running the LHC experiment are successful in identifying the Higgs boson or God particle, undoubtedly this will be a hot topic for those of us who like to throw evidence over the fence. Really, the proof could go either way. Non-theists like myself would look at the confirmation of Higgs boson as a credit to the scientific community for essentially creating and detecting “god” and putting “god” into a theorem or mathematical equation. Religious folk would most likely look at such a discovery as proof of a god, although it would do nothing in the way of telling them (or us) which of the many forms of god it is. But that is a topic for another day. In the end, god and science do not mix. In a person’s acceptance of scientific proof, the myths of gods must be discarded. In a quest for a god, science and reason get the boot. Perhaps this explains why 90% of the scientific community is non-theistic. To be a religious scientist would be akin to working at a fat camp while eating snickers under the covers at night.