SUMMARY: A delegation from the Vatican which including Vatican City's governor, Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, toured the world's biggest nuclear physics laboratory, theCERN proton accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland this week (picture from Wikimedia Commons). "The Church never fears the truth of science, because we are convinced that all truth comes from God," Lajolo said.
Scientists hope to use the $10 billion CERN atom smasher to smash protons from hydrogen atoms into each other at high energy, record what particles are produced, and get a "better idea of the makeup of the universe and everything in it." Researchers hope these collisions will tell them what happened in the first one-trillionth of a second after the so-called Big Bang, the theoretical explosion held by many scientists to be the beginning of the universe. Scientists also hope the CERN project might unify Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity with quantum mechanics. The accelerator was damaged during its initial use in September and may not get running again until this autumn.
Lajolo went on to say that science will help faith to "purify itself." He would welcome any breakthroughs by physicists which would provide a better understanding of the basis of the universe. However, he added that faith can broaden the horizons of men who shouldn't be enclosed within just science's horizons.
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COMMENT: The CERN atom smasher or Large Hadron Collider is a project by evolutionists. Would creationist scientists be spending $10 billion to find out what happened in the first split second of the creation? People who have been following recent statements about evolution coming out of the Vatican, the Roman Catholic Church's headquarters, realize that the Catholic church is on record as supporting Darwinism. At the same time, as an observer who lives across an ocean from this institution, I must say there definitely seems to be some confusion and uncertainty on how they should handle the evolution question. One can't cozy up too close to the scientific establishment, which wants to keep God out of the picture, without appearing to make faith and religion irrelevant. That's not a situation the world's largest Christian denomination should want to be in.
Why is the Roman Catholic Church doing this? I believe it is because this church body got burned once, when it condemned Galileo in the 17th century and put him under house arrest. Galileo's crime: he supported Copernicanism which removed the Earth from the center of the universe. The Catholic Church undoubtedly doesn't want to get embarrassed again. Yet, just because Galileo may have been right doesn't mean that Charles Darwin also was right. In both these cases, Roman Catholicism has chosen to be on the wrong side. Yes, we don't need to fear the truth of science, as the Cardinal said, but what does evolution have to do with the "truth of science"?
Many have pointed out that today the Pope and his followers are farther from the truth, perhaps MUCH father, then the Catholic Church of Martin Luther's day, when the church's errors eventually led to a split. At least then Genesis was accepted as an accurate account of the world's beginnings. Today, with the Catholic Church no longer believing in a literal Genesis or a literal Adam and Eve, how do their theologians explain the origin of sin? How can people be blamed for falling short of the glory of God if we homo sapiens are evolving to a higher state all on our own. What need is there for a Savior?
Roman Catholic leaders (as well as many Lutherans and other Christians) need to get their act together. Study the science of origins with an open mind. Note the absence of transitional animals in the modern world and the lack of missing links in the fossil record which even many secular paleontologists have admitted. Note how mutations are almost always harmful and can never add information to an organism's genetic code that will help it evolve to a higher level. Best of all, go back to the Holy Bible, study it, and appreciate how it has stood the test of time. Only wild speculations, not scientific facts, have put Scripture in a bad light. Scripture tells us how mankind fell into sin, how God promised a Savior, how Jesus Christ came as the Savior to conquer sin and Satan, and how we can all enjoy an eternity of bliss in heaven by accepting the gifts of forgiveness and salvation which the Lord offers to all.
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QUESTION OF THE DAY
What is meant by the term "astrobiology"?
Astrobiology (other terms have been exobiology, exopaleontology, and bioastronomy) is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe.Source: Wikipedia.
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