Dennis Prager on Higgs Boson: 'Only If There is a God Does Their Discovery Matter'

via The ‘God Particle’ and God – Dennis Prager – National Review Online:

They found the “God particle.”

That was the headline splashed all over America’s news media. It turns out that the name actually derives from substituting “God particle” for “goddamn particle,” the original name some scientists had given the elusive particle. But the media adopted the former nomenclature.

Why?

Because otherwise the bulk of humanity would not pay attention.

Physicists went nuts. And no one can blame them. For decades, they have searched for the particle that may explain why there is any mass in the universe. And 10 billion dollars was spent on the machine that probably proved its existence.

Without any disrespect to the enormous intellectual achievement of these scientists, let me state that I identify with the mass of humanity that doesn’t really care about the existence of the Higgs boson.

Read the whole thing.

And see my review of Prager’s new book Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph here.