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Thread #153464   Message #3607440
Posted By: Jack the Sailor
05-Mar-14 - 12:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: Darwin's Witnesses
Subject: RE: BS: Darwin's Witnesses
Cute satirical piece An Actual. It seems that the intended audience are those that understand gravity and the basic math.

F = G x (m_1 X m_2}/{r^2} Obviously if you know the math, masses and distances you could calculate the relative attraction of the sun and earth on the moon.

I would think that if you didn't know the math, the arguments would not seem as funny.

There obviously is no theory of gravity effective at both relativity and quantum mechanics scales.

Isn't that one of the goals of modern physics? Isn't that one of the things that string theory was invented to account for? Might one say that some iterations of string theory are, in fact, unproven theories of gravity? That is my understanding of it anyway.

The good thing about gravity is that to "prove" it all we have to do is drop an anvil on a creationist's head and say, "the reason that hurts so much is a phenomenon scientists call gravity."

IMHO the issue with "creation scientists" is their often intentional distortion of definitions of words such as "belief", "theory" and especially "scientist" to place doubt in the minds of people who can't or won't do the math. The issue with people who believe that "creation science" has anything to do with science is that they will not take the trouble to learn what science is.

Bill D expresses this far more eloquently than I do in terms of logic and etymology. I was entertained by the thoughts above and wanted to share them.