Hi Tristam
It's a funny article but I'm not sure that you're aware the The Onion articles are not for real. But they are great anyway,
Marcia Triunfol
www.dnagoestoschool.org
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From: "Wyatt, Tristram" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:45:56 +0100
Subject: [PSCI-COM] FW: important news from The Onion: new theory of Intelligent Fal ling
> you may have been sent this already but in case not
>
> http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4133&n=2
>
> "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.
>
> 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."
>
> Founded in 1987, the ECFR is the world's leading institution of
> evangelical physics, a branch of physics based on literal interpretation
> of the Bible. ... "
>
>
> best wishes
> tristram
>
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