Near Geneva, the EU and the US Department of Energy has just finished construction on the world’s largest supercollider.

Now generally I believe in the principle that ‘science is fun’, but there is one small potential downside on pressing the start button on this mother. There is a teeny, weenie speck of a chance that… theoretically… it could open up a black hole on the surface of the earth.

World’s Largest Supercollider Could Destroy the Universe – Tech Freep

But don’t panic, because scientists say it “PROBABLY” won’t happen.

When I heard this my mind went back to a sermon I heard from a very bright pastor in Manhattan named Tim Keller who made the point that there are many things that you can be wrong about, that won’t cause that big of a problem. But that there are a few things that are so important, that the consequences of being wrong are so serious, that you can’t just THINK it isn’t true, you have to KNOW that it isn’t true.

Examples of such dangerous assumptions might be that God does not exist, that vaccines don’t cause life long neurological impairments in children, and that your science experiment will not open up a black hole on the surface of the earth and suck the planet in like in Poltergeist when the whole house got sucked into the closet.

What do black holes have to do directly with autism? Nothing. Although I would not be surprised to hear that Autism Speaks is considering funding a study to see if there is a relationship between black holes and autism under their ABV* program. (*Anything But Vaccines)

I raise the topic for two reasons.

One, to point out what arrogant SOBs we really are.

Two, as a public service announcement on the off chance that on some sunny day this summer you find yourself suddenly flying through the air in the general direction of Europe, that you will know what is happening and be able to take a moment to decide that you are completely right on your position on the God question, and to forgive those who were wrong about the vaccine question.

But don’t worry. It probably won’t happen.