As the community of science continues to probe the meaning and nature of matter, it conveniently ignores the possibility that the answers they seek are simply the work of God. The international effort results in the construction of greater and more powerful machines designed to dissect the structure of matter down to the smallest element.

While they seem to have made great progress, the deeper they go trying to solve this mystery, the more complex the answer becomes.

The scientific community does try to keep us informed – or perhaps it is just bragging. It is becoming more common to see little news pieces pop up on internet sites, detailing the latest discoveries or theories regarding the nature of all matter and/or how that matter came into existence via the “big bang.”

The problem is that the common reader can’t begin to understand what they are talking about. Such news reports are sprinkled with terms like quarks, leptons, electrons, muons, hadrons, and other exotic names. To complicate things even further, science now tells us that quarks come in a variety of styles such as up, down, strange, charmed, top and bottom.

Confused yet? Wait! There’s even more to add to the mix.

As these fundamental building blocks of matter act and interact, we need to address the existence of forces that hold these elements in place and forces that act upon matter. Now we have weak force, strong force, electromagnetic force and of course, gravity.

And let’s not forget the theory that there exists vast quantities of antimatter and dark matter in the universe, the nature of which defies understanding.

So, what does this all mean in a search for answers about God versus science?

Science struggles mightily to find the answers to the mysteries it uncovers. All the while, it finds forces it cannot measure, particles it cannot see, and interactions that can only be understood by examining the results. While instruments are being built to solve some of these questions, those same instruments routinely expose more questions than answers.

At some point, we must confront the probability that our existence and the existence of the entire universe is much too complex to be the result of a random series of accidents. At some point, we need to acknowledge the existence of God.

We are handicapped by the limits of our five senses. We are handicapped by the limits of our mastery of mathematics. We are handicapped by the limits of our ability to measure and understand fundamental forces of nature.

Perhaps it is in our nature to strive to understand all that exists. Perhaps that is one of the factors that defines our humanity.

If so, then perhaps our struggles will expose the most important answer we will ever find. It might be that we may finally realize that we will never completely understand the full spectrum of nature and that those mysterious forces that defy our understanding are simply the will of God.

And perhaps it is in that realization that we will finally and fully see God.