News from the science world recently fought its way into the headlines of newspapers all across the country with the announcement that scientists were close to identifying the "God particle".
Guido Tonelli, spokesman for the European Center for Nuclear Research in Switzerland, said the evidence of such a particle was there in their findings.
For lay people, the God particle is defined as a sub-atomic particle whose presence allows other particles to join together to form an accumulation of mass.
In other words, the God particle would explain how things or objects came into existence at the beginning of time.
Scientists have for years been searching for an explanation of the force that caused randomly wandering subatomic particles to conglomerate into objects instead of just bouncing around the cosmos in their sub-atomic state.
The God particle would therefore help to provide a scientific explanation for creation itself.
Except for one problem: they can't find it.
What they have been able to prove is that since subatomic particles have no intelligence of their own, something must have been present leading to an organized plan generating material things and living things.
It seems to me that these God particle scientists in Geneva have merely proven something that surveys show most of us believe in: God.
Many years ago a scientist by the name of Duncan McDougall used science to prove the existence of the soul. His scientific experiments proved that a human body, upon death, becomes slightly lighter in weight at the moment of expiration.
Dr. McDougall pronounced his data as proof that we all have a soul that departs at the end of our life.
What bothers me is the danger that many will rely on these limited tools of science in order to reach conclusions about the existence of God and the spiritual nature of mankind.
Tumors disappear without explanation frequently after families and friends petition God through their prayers.
Doctors are often left dumbfounded when patients awake from a coma with normal intellectual capacity after an MRI previously demonstrated that the individual had no brain function.
In Canton Ohio you can visit the home of Rhoda Weiss, where you can see the hundreds of photographs and blood stained garments showing the stigmata she endured for many years as a way of uniting herself with the suffering of Jesus.
My point is that you don't have to go very far to find evidence of God.
Have you ever seen a newborn baby?
So while the scientific community is spending millions of dollars at a research institute in Europe, I humbly posit that these learned men and women are, like the song says, looking for love in all the wrong places.
The God particle is inside every single one of us if we would just listen to God's call to be more like him and let the divine within us shine through.
In a soup kitchen somewhere tonight God will manifest himself in acts of kindness shown to a lonely old woman who thought that no one cared for her. The God particle is there.
Just like it was in the manger 2000 years ago, surrounded by oxen and sheep and the mother and father who didn't need Guido Tonelli to tell them that God might exist.
You don't need Guido either.
Do you?
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