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Evangelicals refute gravity with new 'Intelligent Falling' theory

Sun, 09/07/2008 - 22:57 - NLN

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.

"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.

Read full story at The Onion.


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Wed, 10/08/2008 - 18:22 — photojack

Teaching bogus physics at Oral Roberts University?

Oral Roberts University should have its accreditation revoked! If they teach that God is "pushing down" instead of classical gravitational science and physics, they have no business awarding academic degrees. The very name, "Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning" is an oxymoron. There is no reasoning without evidence, facts and science. Their intelligence is falling faster than that of the "Intelligent Design" proponents! America needs to wake up and smell the Rosaceae. Read, learn and comprehend science before we return to the Dark Ages. How can people fall into such ignorance? Please see http://www.edge.org to see what the best thinkers today are saying about this vital topic.

Darwin was a keen observer and theorist and his theory is PROVEN beyond a shadow of a doubt. The only reason it is still called a theory is because it can't be proven in the same way a mathematical theorem can. That is a problem with semantics, NOT the science!

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 15:23 — terren

ummm

I hate to be the one to tell you this photojack but the article is satire, from The Onion.

Anyway, responding to the final paragraph of all 3 of your comments, evolution is called a theory by convention, it has nothing to do with provability (a confusion that Intelligent Design folks certainly take advantage of). In the scientific idiom, a theory refers to an explanatory framework. As opposed to the colloquial use, in which 'theory' is used to mean the same as 'hypothesis', as in, "What's your theory on that?". But the Theory of Relativity and the Theory of Evolution are not individual hypotheses but as I said, explanatory frameworks, much larger than any single hypothesis. Both are accepted as scientific truth, by those for whom scientific truth is meaningful.

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