The widely published story about the "Big Bang Machine" has all sorts of people intrigued...a sixteen-year-old Indian girl was so freaked out about this machine's abilities that she committed suicide to avoid the second big bang.

Supposedly, this machine, which now has a cost of $10 billion and is the 14-year-long product of 10,000 scientists and engineers, will eventually recreate the Big Bang on a small scale. The process is slow because beams of protons are sent on a repetitious 17-mile journey until they reach the speed of light. The theory, then, is that these protons will eventually increase in speed and collide, creating energy 100,000 times the temperature of the sun's surface--the proposed by-product of the Big Bang.

Not being too heavily biased toward the science behind this experiment, I have to say I'm quite doubtful we're going to discover much truth into the mysteries of the universe. I don't think humanity was meant to uncover these types of mysteries.

Look at the Bible...Christians' head-knowledge was meant to grow based on the truths and revelations of the Bible, and the way in which we're supposed to live was illustrated by Jesus. If we were meant to know anything more...or if we were meant to live in any other way, I believe that information and illustration would have been provided. Granted, humanity was created as knowledgeable and teachable free-willed beings, so we're expected to learn much about what was created.

This is the Creator guiding the created.

Mankind was created on earth and as an administer and caretaker of earth (cf Gen 2). Mankind was not created in the heavens, so we're not supposed to be intrinsically knowledgeable and take care of the heavens--God knows the boundaries of and takes care of the heavens.

Last I checked, the last time a group of people went overboard trying attain knowledge not privileged to them, they discovered they had somehow learned different languages and couldn't understand each other, thus halting their pursuit and putting humanity in a pretty pickle (cf Gen 11).

And I can't help but think of this machine as the Cerebro of non-fictional humanity.