If you’ve been following the progress of the big particle collider in Geneva, the title of this article may come as a surprise to you. After all, we learned that $21,000,000 more dollars is needed to get it up and running by Summer, 2009 (at the earliest). So, if the collider is not up and running yet, then how can it point to design? Let me explain.

The particle collider is designed to simulate the earliest moments (one trillionth of a second) after the big bang, so scientists can learn more about the makeup of the smallest components of matter. So far, the collider has cost 10 billion dollars. Yes, that’s $10,000,000,000.

Why didn’t the collider succeed during its much hyped launch September 19th? The problem, according to the organization, is the failure of a single, badly soldered electrical connection. In other words, this multi-billion dollar machine, which was so carefully designed, failed to work because of one solitary poor connection. The lesson we learn is clear: the machine won’t work unless it is exquisitely fine-tuned.

The irony is enormous: The particle collider is meant to simulate the beginning of the universe (which many scientists think was an uncaused, chance occurrence), but it cannot even function without incredible intelligent tinkering! The slightest miscalculation, and the entire project fails. If it takes billions of dollars, and the smartest people on the face of the planet, to design a machine to simulate the beginning of the universe, then why should we think the real beginning of the universe could happen without design? If a machine requires such fine-tuning, then so does the universe itself.

This reminds me of the scientists who are trying to prove abiogenesis (life emerging from non-life) by creating life in a test tube. If scientists were ever able to create life from non-life it would only prove one thing: life cannot emerge by chance, but requires intelligent input. Currently scientists have no clue how life emerged on life. Yet even if they were able to simulate such an occurrence, it would actually point towards intelligent design, not chance. The same is true for the particle collider.

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