Has your kid ever asked why is there stuff?
If not then you are pretty lucky because that’s a pretty difficult question to answer.
As a Christian I believe that everything had it’s origin in God. But why is there matter and stuff and why does that stuff matter, that’s where things get complicated.
Scientists have been trying to find this thing called the Higgs-Boson particle that theoretically could give some understanding to why things have matter. It is completely theoretical because no one has ever seen it. It’s been called the God particle and as Alister McGrath explains in this article it’s actually a great place to begin the search for God.
I am going to paste the last half of the article in this blog becuase I think Mcgrath gives some helpful understanding for the importance of science and how it relates to Christian faith. The two are not mutually exclusive.
Some tell us that science is about what can be proved. The wise tell us it is really about offering the best explanations of what we see, realising that these explanations often cannot be proved, and may sometimes lie beyond proof. Science often proposes the existence of invisible (and often undetectable) entities – such as dark matter – to explain what can be seen. The reason why the Higgs boson is taken so seriously in science is not because its existence has been proved, but because it makes so much sense of observations that its existence seems assured. In other words, its power to explain is seen as an indicator of its truth.
There’s an obvious and important parallel with the way religious believers think about God. While some demand proof that God exists, most see this as unrealistic. Believers argue that the existence of God gives the best framework for making sense of the world. God is like a lens, which brings things into clearer focus. As the Harvard psychologist William James pointed out years ago, religious faith is about inferring “the existence of an unseen order” in which the “riddles of the natural order” can be explained.
There’s more to God than making sense of things. But for religious believers, it’s a great start.
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