God has been reduced to a particle - maybe.

I guess you've heard by now that scientists are all in a dither because the God particle has been discovered -- maybe. I couldn't help but laugh at the reports earlier this month.

Billions of dollars have been spent on this quest. The results are astonishing! The new particle "looks like" the Higgs boson, the key to understanding why there is diversity and life in the universe. Hey, I have that answer, and it didn't cost me a thing. I got it out of my free Gideon Bible. Why is there diversity and life in the universe? "In the beginning God created. . ." 

But back to the scientists' decades long search for the God particle. "I think we have it," said Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director general of the multinational research center making the "discovery." Heuer went on to say is was a historic milestone, but it was "too soon to know for sure." 

The particle is "predicted" to imbue elementary particles with mass, but it may be "an imposter." A University of California physicist said, "It's something that may, in the end, be one of the biggest observations . . . in the last 30 or 40 years." 

Scientists everywhere celebrated the announcement with champagne . . ."everywhere that members of a curious species have dedicated their lives and fortunes to the search for their origins in a dark universe." If only they'd called me earlier! I could have told them . . . " . . .and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light . . . and God created man in His own image. . ."

How much did this discovery cost? According to Forbes, the total cost of finding the Higgs boson ran about $13.25 billion -- some of it yours as the U.S. government and U.S. universities kicked in funds. 

The question was asked, "Were there any practical results from the search?" The answer: Not directly. But they do say the search resulted in the invention of the internet. But wait -- didn't Al Gore invent that?

"New particle opens window into universe." The Dallas Morning News; July 5, 2012; p. 1A.