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Big Bang or Dream of God? Which Story Better explains the universe?
On my upcoming radio show, Conversations Beyond Science and Religion, webtalkradio.net, scheduled for posting on July 29, 2013, I interview Professor Michael Behe of Lehigh University and author of the controversial book, Darwin’s Black Box. This book, which the back cover says helped launch the intelligent design movement, contains a devastating attack on Darwin’s theory of natural selection. We are conditioned to reject the intelligent design movement as unscientific (if not unAmerican) and to believe t
In 1993, Noble prize-winning physicist, Leon Lederman, published a book entitled, The God Particle. The book was about a particle, hypothesized most prominently by Peter Higgs, which is associated with a field that permeates the universe and gives mass to the elementary particles in the Standard Model of particle physics. On July 4, 2012, physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, the world’s largest particle accelerator, announced they had discovered signs of a new particle that looks an “a