Raphael said: This article talks about what really matters. https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3136652/cern-scientists-comic-sans-higgs-boson
Atma Weapon said: I've been browsing the blogosphere today, and quite a few religious apologists are trying to discredit the discovery because it's statistical rather than certain. Two points: 1. The search for the Higgs has nothing whatsoever to do with God, either for or against. I would argue that no scientific investigation ever has, nor will it ever. 2. If statistical confidence is insufficient to claim knowledge of the physical world, we must also throw away every single other discovery based on observation. I'm willing to live with the Problem of Induction if the alternative is either faith or nihilism.
