In an interview with All Things Considered, in 1993, Dick Teresi told Melissa Block that the term ‘God particle’ was a joke title for his book: The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?1 However, the publisher thought it was a marketable phrase and retained it in the book’s title.
The only thing divine about the Higgs boson is that it was designed by God with a specific value of force. In this respect, there are many God particles in creation. The specific value of force in the boson is in itself miraculous because a force value greater or less than it has by 1 part in 10 to the 40th power would prevent life-sustaining stars from forming.2 Why does the boson possess the one value of that allows life to exist on earth when it has innumerable possible values it could have had occurring by chance? The boson, like so many other forces and values, were designed to possess its force value to make it possible for life to exist. This is fine tuning evidence for an Intelligent Designer.
The excitement over finding the Higgs Boson is due to its elusiveness. Of the four fundamental forces in creation (strong nuclear, weak nuclear, electromagnetic, and gravitational), the boson of gravity is the last and most challenging force to be identified.
The name Higgs boson was coined by British physicist Peter Higgs. He and others first theorized, almost 50 years ago, the existence of such a particle as predicted by the Standard Model of Physics (SMP).3 Up until now, the SMP has been missing a major component to be a complete model.
Discovery of the Higgs boson completes the model’s need for four fundamental laws and will lead to new and exciting insights into God’s design of creation.
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1Eyder Peralta, March 15, 2013, 5:04pm, The Man Who Coined ‘The God Particle’ Explains: It Was A Joke!, npr, http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/03/15/174440162/the-man-who-coined-the-god-particle-explains-it-was-a-joke
2Robin Collins, September 1, 1998, Reprinted from Reason for the Hope Within, Discovery Institute Center for Science and Culture, http://www.discovery.org/a/91, Calculations by Brandon Carter show that if gravity had been stronger or weaker by 1 part in 10 to the 40th power, then life-sustaining stars like the sun could not exist. This would most likely make life impossible. (Davies, 1984, p. 242.)
3Jon Hembrey, Mar 15, 2013 5:18 AM ET, Why the Higgs boson ‘God particle’ matters, CBC News, http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/03/14/f-god-particle-higgs-boson-why-matters.html
