{"id":7763,"date":"2005-08-17T10:36:36","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T17:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/08\/17\/intelligent-falling.html"},"modified":"2005-08-17T10:36:36","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T17:36:36","slug":"intelligent_fal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/17\/intelligent_fal.html","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent Falling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heh. Heh, heh, heh.<\/p>\n

“Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New ‘Intelligent Falling’ Theory.<\/a>“<\/p>\n

“Things fall not because they are acted upon by some gravitational force, but because a higher intelligence, ‘God’ if you will, is pushing them down,” said Gabriel Burdett, who holds degrees in education, applied Scripture, and physics from Oral Roberts University.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

[…] The ECFR, in conjunction with the Christian Coalition and other Christian conservative action groups, is calling for public-school curriculums to give equal time to the Intelligent Falling theory. They insist they are not asking that the theory of gravity be banned from schools, but only that students be offered both sides of the issue “so they can make an informed decision.”<\/p>\n

“We just want the best possible education for Kansas’ kids,” Burdett said.<\/p>\n

Proponents of Intelligent Falling assert that the different theories used by secular physicists to explain gravity are not internally consistent. Even critics of Intelligent Falling admit that Einstein’s ideas about gravity are mathematically irreconcilable with quantum mechanics. This fact, Intelligent Falling proponents say, proves that gravity is a theory in crisis.<\/p>\n

It’s via The Onion<\/em>, but I’m waiting to read about it on the AP wires …<\/p>\n

(via J-Walk<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heh. 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