OT: Gravity explained

What, you got a problem with that? Gravity IS a theory! So is everything else science has discovered. Indeed, religion holds the only true facts there are.

This shouldn't be suprising.

Tim

-- Deep Fryer: a very philosophical monk. Website:

Gravity is Love.

Cheers! Rich

What I find interesting is how many people didn't get the article as the spoof it was (re-posted from The Onion). This sort of argument falls completely within the realm of things that the I.D. folks come up with.

Galileo Was Wrong

Official Geocentricity Website

The Earth is not Moving:the granddaddy of all conspiracies

The Geocentric Bible. Note the chapter titles

More like religion holds all the folks who are arrogant enough to spit in God's eye and tell Him what he's shaped like.

And it isn't. Any time you set up a system where the loudest collection of a**holes wins money, influence and power you'll attract a loud collection of a**holes.

To the detriment of the folks who _really_ want to grow closer to the divine -- but they don't dispense money, influence or power, so who cares?

If is so believable - absolutely perfect satire

"Liberty University" says they have a 6,000 year old dinosaur -

This seems to be the original version:

The Christian haters are happy to pick up a parody like that and widely repeat as serious Belief, so they can then mock it.

Like the bumper sticker says, mean people suck.

John

... onlyif you are a very oral person withproperly placed l*ps.

Actually, I think it is a mockery of Intelligent Design, even when you know that it is a joke.

Is ID a serious Christian belief?

It's a serious theory among some people who aren't Christians.

John

I'm not sure what you mean. That's not really an answer, more of an aside.

If you're serious, please name three non-Christian advocates of the current Intelligent Design paradigm.

Late at night, by candle light, John Larkin penned this immortal opus:

What's wrong with making fun of goofy beliefs? The ID people truly believe they're on to something, however wrong. If they'd keep it to themselves it would be allright but trying to legislate it down everybody's throat is a big no-no in my book. That makes them a fair target for everything thrown at them.

- YD.

Evolution, as it applies to the origin of DNA, is arguably a goofy belief. I've seen calculation by serious scientists that resulted in probabilities than most statisticians would classify as "impossible."

Until there's proof one way or another, any dismissal of a possible origin for DNA is unreasoned prejudice.

Presenting possibilities is not the same as forcing beliefs down anyone's throat. Personally, I lean towards the idea that DNA is a very sophisticated algorithmic machine that was probably designed somewhere else and transported to Earth. Far more radical concepts have been proven true in the history of Science.

How can you call something wrong when you have no hard evidence that something else is the right explanation? I sure hope you don't design electronics that way.

John

Sure.

G W Bush Pat Robertson Jerry Falwell

All three propose Intelligent Design be taught and none is a Christian.

Not amongst Christians but certainly amongst the pseudo Christians who form the proto fascist US rightwing.

As Bette Midler likes to say, "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke".

That's a fair point. Unfortunately there is no way to prove ID, it makes no predictions and there are no experiments you can do to verify it - it simply requires an act of faith. There are experiments that can, have and will be done to demonstrate how DNA actually evolved.

Ian

Bollocks. According to a recent calculation, if you make a 2 mile round trip to the corner store to buy a Powerball ticket you are 7 times as likely to die in a car accident during the trip as to win the Powerball. Yet people do win the Powerball.

Two strands of DNA form as a result of chemical activity. One has a stronger 'ability' to survive than the other. And away we go.

Ah, science.

John