Creative processes

WHILE applauding the phenomenal work of the scientists with the Large Hadron Collider in identifying the “God particle” (their terminology), I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at Dr Alan Barr’s comment (Thursday’s Oxford Mail) in which he says: “The existence of a particle like the Higgs boson asks deep questions about why the universe seems to be so exquisitely set up for us to inhabit, almost as if it had us in mind from the beginning.”