Comments on: Life, Matter and the God Particle

By: Wendy Scott

Wendy Scott — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 02:24:36 +0000

Thank you, Maya, for keeping us informed about this issue. I always wondered why anyone would have called it the “God particle.”

By: Wendy Scott

Wendy Scott — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 02:23:07 +0000

In reply to Hooshang S. Afshar. I think He does, Hooshang, do you? Believing in God lets us have a relationship with our Creator, Who knew His love for us before we were created. It gives us a broader perspective and lets us free ourselves from the fetters of this world and the prison of self.

By: Victor Kulkosky

Victor Kulkosky — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:42:04 +0000

I understand using “the God particle” in your argument, but I feel compelled to point out that neither Peter Higgs nor any other scientist labeled the Higgs Boson as “The God Particle.” The publisher of a book on the particle came up with that name to give the book a catchy title, based on a flawed understanding that the particle “gives mass” to stuff and without it the world as we know it wouldn’t exist, so it’s, like, “the God Particle.” My laymen’s understanding it’s much more complicated than that. But I agree with the article’s conclusions nonetheless.

By: Maya Bohnhoff

Maya Bohnhoff — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:52:04 +0000

In reply to Shahin Sean Eghanian. If you've followed scientific discovery, you'll know that "heretics" are punished and ostracized in that are of human life as well. This is something humans do, regardless of the application.

By: Maya Bohnhoff

Maya Bohnhoff — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:46:50 +0000

That’s actually a great idea for an article and on one of my favorite subjects!

By: Coriolano Guarani-Kaiowá Correa

Coriolano Guarani-Kaiowá Correa — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:03:17 +0000

Excellent article but I wish you could elaborate more on the clarification of the apparent difference between politheistic and monotheistic religions.

By: Michael Cavitt

Michael Cavitt — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 22:48:03 +0000

Thank you. This is a wonderful piece. I had a similar piece written by William Hatcher “The Scientific Proof of God”.

By: Steve Eaton

Steve Eaton — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 21:46:37 +0000

A super article, Maya. It’s hard for me to see how anybody can ignore the preponderance of
“suggestive” evidence of God. For me it far outweighs the limiting mechanistic measures of truth.

By: Shahin Sean Eghanian

Shahin Sean Eghanian — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 20:14:31 +0000

In reply to Shahin Sean Eghanian. Its nonbelievers* No moral dimensions when compared to God*

By: Shahin Sean Eghanian

Shahin Sean Eghanian — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 20:12:28 +0000

Very interesting. Just want to add that there is an important difference between the idea of God and the idea if the Higgs boson. People don’t worship the Higgs boson and don’t kill or ostracize the its nonbelievers, so the consequences of its non-observable character bear no moral dimensions.