By Pastor Terry Chapman

Moravia Church of the Nazarene

This is not exactly a southern Iowa concern, but it is very interesting to people who have heard about it. In France, at times, as many as 10,000 scientists have worked for twenty years to build a Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The idea is that this machine will re-create the Big Bang that started the universe. The machine broke down after one week of its start up.

As a Pastor of a church in Iowa, this is where my interest comes in. I have two major problems with the Big Bang machine. One, this seems to be an attempt by the entire world’s scientific community to once and for all put to rest the notion that there is a God. One of the things they hope comes out of this process is what they call the “god molecule”. That is the answer to, how does life start from non-life? The scientists believe that when the big bang occured, something happened that made life possible. They need that to be true so that there is no need for God. As a Christian, I don’t need a big machine to prove or disprove God.

“In the beginning God.”

My second problem is that it has taken so many people so many years to work and study and design a machine to re-CREATE what we have before our eyes today. They have the “model” to go by. It’s not an original. So to me, no matter what is produced by this machine, if anything ever is produced, it will not disprove God! On the contrary, it will prove INTELLIGENT DESIGN! And I’m guessing that in the scientific world, no matter the outcome, the search will continue for PROOF of the origins of the universe. And at churches all over the world we will continue to announced the TRUTH of the origins of the universe.

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth.” Genesis 1:1