For myself, I believe God is our creator. So when I see something like this, something so small but so complex, it kind of fascinates me. With that said, I can't find it in myself to believe that this "particle" was made by accident; ironically enough a particle that pulled everything else that was supposedly created by accident.......or just floating around with no purpose. I mean, its hard to even grasp the idea of how God would create all that there is we know, and so so much that we have yet to discover. Who's it to say God didn't create this particle for the sole purpose to pull all the other elements in to make the masterpiece. Its like a programmer creates events through .Net and then calls those events to create code.
Not to turn this into a religious discussion, but anything that intelligently creates something so complex must itself be complex. If one's logic is that X must have been created by Y because X is extraordinarily complex, then Y, as a complex entity, must also have been created by something complex. This logic becomes an infinite loop with no definitive conclusion.
Similarly, if you assume that the universe has collapsed upon itself and exploded in a big bang an infinite number of times (or if you assume that there is an infinite number of alternate universes), then it's statistically sound to conclude that the Higgs boson would appear in one of the infinite versions of the universe. But it's still an assumption that never gives you an answer as to how all matter originated.
What the above essentially boils down to
for me is that the discovery of the Higgs boson doesn't lend more evidence to God's existence, or vice versa. The assumptions that believers and scientists have made prior to this discovery still apply, and the existence of the Higgs boson doesn't lend any more credence to either assumption.
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