HOW PHYSICISTS DIFFER FROM DARWINISTS:

CERN scientists seek to replay the universe's birth (Dennis Overbye, May 14, 2007, NY Times)

The first thing that gets you is the noise.

Physics, after all, is supposed to be a cerebral pursuit. But this cavern almost measureless to the eye, stuffed as it is with an Eiffel Tower's worth of metal, eight-story wheels of gold fan-shape boxes, thousands of kilometers of wire and fat ductlike coils, echoes with the shriek of power tools, the whine of pumps and cranes, beeps and clanks from wrenches, hammers, screwdrivers and the occasional falling bolt. It seems no place for the studious.

The physicists, wearing hard hats, kneepads and safety harnesses, are scrambling like Spiderman over this assembly, appropriately named Atlas, ducking under waterfalls of cables and tubes and crawling into hidden room-size cavities stuffed with electronics.

They are getting ready to see the universe born again.

Again and again and again - 40 million times a second, to be exact.

They don't even pretend that their lab work doesn't demonstrate intelligent design.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 14, 2007 7:53 PM