The Controversial Theory of Gravity
January 16, 2007
Recently, the Federal Way school district in Washington banned the showing of the film “An Inconvenient Truth”, because the controversial theory of global warming could not be supported by a faculty member without offering an opposing viewpoint.
This has also been an argument for teaching intelligent design alongside evolution.
Def: controversial: given to controversy or argument.
Therefore, if I were to argue against a theory, it would be controversial. Henceforth, I demand that schools stop teaching the Theory of Gravity. According to my religion, I can fly, and gravity does not exist. People fall down because I don’t want them to fly as well.
Additionally, there are holes in the Theory of Gravity, black ones, and it can no longer be taught in schools, unless my religion (which states that I am a god and can fly) is taught alongside.
Well technically, there is no definitive proof that gravity exists. The belief in gravity is actually flawed logic, as all we can see is it’s effect, not the force itself.
For example, if I punch you in the nose, you’ll have a broken nose.
BUT
If you have a broken nose, that does NOT mean that I punched you.
A equals B but B does not necessarily equal A. Simple logic (see, I knew that my IT degree would come in handy one day!).
Precisely. The Theory of Gravity is only quantitively stronger than the Theory of Evolution, or the theory of Global warming. So how it is that heretical science teachers can continue to teach the unproven Theory of Gravity unabated. After all, there’s nothing in the Bible about Gravity. In fact, didn’t Jesus walk on water.
Gravity surely is the consequence of a body in space ..provided that body has sufficient capture area, or size and a reasonable amount of mass, or density.
But..the source of this pressure on that body in space must reside in the “vacuum of Space” All energies I believe, are potentially located in this Aether, waiting to be extracted.
That sounds like witchcraft.
Hehe.. Andy.
You make a good point though: while much of what we understand of science is still conjecture and alot of educated guessing, no topic garners as much attention as does the theory of evolution, for obvious reasons (except maybe the big bang, for the same reasons): it goes to the core of religious belief in creation (and not just in Christianity).
What bothers me about the whole thing is that it seems those who would banish the idea place absolutely no value on actually attempting to learn if it is true or not. There’s no value placed on the discovery of truth itself: only the embracing of dogma. The true value of evolution itself may not in fact be what it says about where we came from, but instead - how it is we teach ourselves, and our children, to approach a world we are struggling to understand.
Do we really want to pass to our children a world that does not ask the hard questions, that does not debate the fundamental points, merely because it makes some religious folk uncomfortable?
It’s a topic that bugs me. There seems to be a strong effort to deny children even the question, which I think does them a great disservice.
You’re all a bunch of witches.
Hehe..
If you burn me at the stake, I shall become moah powahful than you could evah imagine!!
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