IN THE BEGINNING, GOD

1 In the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

I am saddened today as the "switch" is being flipped on for the" Large Hadron Collider", somewhere in Sweden. As many as 2300 Scientists from 40 countries have worked up to 15 years trying to develop this Large Hadron Collider to "recreate" "the big bang" the is supposed to have created the earth.
Construction on the 17-mile long tunnel which is 328 feet underground began 14 years ago and has so far cost $5 billion.
Scientists hope the collider will shed light on things that have eluded researchers, Baker said, things they have been unable to see in experiments or describe with current models of understanding. For example, the way scientists understand the big bang suggests that the expansion of the universe should be slowing, Baker said, but in fact, it is expanding and accelerating outward. So they are hoping what might explain this. Similarly, researchers know nothing about what accounts for the rotation curves of galaxies, he said.Baker and his team are searching for something called the Higgs Boson, sometimes referred to as the "God particle." Scientists have theorized that the elusive Higgs Boson, if it exists, is what gives particles mass, but researchers have not found it. Baker has hopes that if it does exist, the Large Hadron Collider will help find it. You can read the entire article by clicking on this link~ http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-cthadron0910.artsep10,0,6923966.story

The $5 billion spent was only indicated in relation to the tunnel, no monetary amount has been listed for the Large Haldron Collider from what I read.

As I think of how all these scientist from 40 different countries have spent so much of their time and so much money spent all these years, I am literally brought to tears, struck with a deep remorse of valuable time and resources being wasted. They do this in the name of science to help possibly in fields of medicine and energy.
The writer here thinks of what could have been accomplished with that amount of energy from 2300 scientist from 40 countries working together for 15 years and at least $5 Billion dollars at their disposal~ Starving children could be fed, perhaps a cure for the aids virus, perhaps a cure for cancer. What about a watering system that can produce clean drinking water for countries that have issues getting water for drinking. Countries that need water to produce life sustaining crops.
Now, I understand $5 billion dollars doesn't do what it use to do, but trying to recreate the "BIG BANG"? Come on....the only big bang was created by man, to destroy, not to create.
I will leave you with how I began~

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.