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Will Matt Fall for "Intelligent Falling?"
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| The Historian 2005-09-05, 8:51 pm |
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Matt Nemmers wrote:
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> The argument is not that either theory can be proven or disproven, only t=
hat
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> both theories are well-know, both are widely-accepted by the American
> people, and both are equally impossible to prove. Each deserves a mention
> in the schools if one is to be fair to science *and* the principles upon
> which this country was founded. If the aim is to leave out God entirely
> we'll have to quit teaching American history as well.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512
Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling'
Theory
August 17, 2005 | Issue 41=B733
KANSAS CITY, KS-As the debate over the teaching of evolution in
public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum
arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the
Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the
long-held "theory of gravity" is flawed, and they have responded to it
with a new theory of Intelligent Falling....
Burdett added: "Gravity-which is taught to our children as a law-is
founded on great gaps in understanding. The laws predict the mutual
force between all bodies of mass, but they cannot explain that force.
Isaac Newton himself said, 'I suspect that my theories may all depend
upon a force for which philosophers have searched all of nature in
vain.' Of course, he is alluding to a higher power."
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| Liam Too 2005-09-08, 8:33 pm |
| The Historian wrote:
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> Matt Nemmers wrote:
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> http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512
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> Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling'
> Theory
>
> August 17, 2005 | Issue 41=B733
>
> KANSAS CITY, KS-As the debate over the teaching of evolution in
> public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum
> arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the
> Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the
> long-held "theory of gravity" is flawed, and they have responded to it
> with a new theory of Intelligent Falling....
>
> Burdett added: "Gravity-which is taught to our children as a law-is
> founded on great gaps in understanding. The laws predict the mutual
> force between all bodies of mass, but they cannot explain that force.
> Isaac Newton himself said, 'I suspect that my theories may all depend
> upon a force for which philosophers have searched all of nature in
> vain.' Of course, he is alluding to a higher power."
The next time you'll hear about the laws of gravity is that the same
above-mentioned people would be asking Congress to abolish this law, in
the same manner when Dubya was overheard to say that he wanted to have
Congress abolish the "Law of Supply and Demand" as a solution to the
rising price of gasoline.
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