Creationism vs. Science. Perhaps it has been too easy to debunk the former, but the inflated hubris of the scientific community in its exploration of our origin has made few inroads into real understanding, and their latest foray into existential silliness -- the Hadron Collider -- just compounds the problem.
Cosmologists say the Big Bang occurred some 15 billion years ago when an unimaginably dense and hot object the size of a small coin exploded in what was then a void, spewing out matter that expanded rapidly to create stars, planets and eventually life on Earth. The huge Collider, nestled far underground at the Franco-Swiss border, has begun to examine this theory by smashing atomic particles together.
And just to prove that the human race hasn't really progressed much since the Venerable Bede predicted the dates of Easter, we're scared of what might happen! Really. The fear is that the Collider will create tiny black holes that will literally suck in planet Earth.
Talk about suicide on a grand scale, this little opus could make us the laughing stock of the universe. (Hey, did you guys see what those Earth idiots did to themselves yesterday?)
Not to worry. Stephen Hawking -- the modern Bede -- says it can't happen, and even if it does, it'll be so quick you won't feel a thing!
A Point in Passing
How does a small coin exist in a void? I thought voids were, well, you know, void.
