Dark Matter for $550 Million Mr. President...

Have you ever wondered where all your tax dollars go? Projects like these (see below link) are funded year in and year out that make little since to anyone who desires to see less debt and more stability in the United States Economy.

This reminds me of a book I am reading and suggest others read (Tough-Minded Christianity). In the book there is an article about IDT (Intelligent Design Theory) (p. 152-160). Now you may be wondering what this has to do with the said topic; just buckle up. Scientist are in a way getting away with any explainable theory, no matter how absurd, in order that they may gain a deeper understanding into our existence, all the while, passing on the possibility of an Intelligent Designer. IDT looks for design responsible for complexity that simply defies Darwin's THEORY of Evolution (not law). This is a complexity that could not have come about by "gradual Darwinian mechanisms" (TMC, p. 157). So the author of the article poses this question which points directly at the absurdity of tax payers anting up for Dark Matter Research.

This is a critical question: Has God (or for those who get queasy when the read God 'an intelligent designer') done anything that modern science can detect? Before we try to answer that question we have to stop and ask another: 'How does one define 'modern science,' and what are its goals? Phil Johnson and many others have noted that the current definition of science requires that all 'scientific' explanations be naturalistic, physical ones. Since God is nonphysical, science by definition cannot detect God. Because of this restriction, any observation in nature which suggests that God might exist must be given a naturalistic explanation no matter how strange that explanation seems (TMC, 155).

The author goes on to use an example that points out this absurdity but I am going to use one here that ties in to the link below. Example: Dark Matter would give clearer insight into how exactly the Big Bang works and whether the galaxies can form without the existence of Dark Matter. Dark Matter is even a supposed substance that defies all known substances (no atoms) and has to be captured, if it exists, in highly sensitive pools of liquid xenon deep beneath the surface on Earth. Therefore, Dark Matter will become one of the 'key pieces' of the scientific, naturalistic, explanation of why the universe is the way it is. "Apparently faith in the existence of [a non-physical, semi-actual substance] is more acceptable faith [to politicians and scientists alike] than simply believing in a transcendent, infinite God" (TMC, p. 155). Dark Matter Research makes it seems as if the 'scientists' have come up with a very strange naturalistic explanation for galaxies and existence as we know it today.

I am just wondering why in these tough economic times the government decides to fund $550 million in Dark Matter research (and possibly more)? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090622/ap_on_sc/us_sci_underground_science
Do you believe Congress is spending your tax dollars properly? (Clearly this is a rhetorical question.)