Professor Stephen Hawking told the BBC this week that the result of an incredible thing that has happened in my lifetime (the almost-certain discovery of the Higgs boson particle at CERN, Geneva) cost him $100. The scientists cheered at the Great Announcement of this (unconfirmed) discovery. Hawking might have added that the Large Hadron Collider where it was probably discovered cost $10 billion.
This is the scientific equivalent of when I look on the back of a margarine container and discover a very obscure ingredient that was always there but I never knew for sure. Then I carry on eating my toast.
I think I'll stick with being excited about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Unpredictable but prophesied, inexplicable yet inevitable, unapplauded but history-changing.
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