Gravity -- just a theory, not a fact:
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I had a long letter to the editor published in the Tennessean, as part of a segment on the question "should you take your kids to the Creation Museum?" I receive a fair amount of e-mail. This has motivated me to put up, so that I can reference it from now on, my own rejection of a couple of…
I'm writing this at an altitude of 37,000 feet, 7 miles up in the air. Now I'm not really afraid of flying — I am entirely confident that I'll be able to post this sometime after I land — but if you think about it, it's grounds for trepidation. This is insanely high, and I'm in this fragile tin can…
Deep into the darkness peering,
long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
-Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven
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The title of this post is a famous question (posed, for example, by Joe Polchinski) which is modeled after an even more famous question by Ken Wilson, "What is Quantum Field Theory?". I certainly can't answer the first question, but Wilson's question now does have a widely agreed upon answer (which…
I kept waiting for the punchline. It never came. How can people be so proud to be so utterly ignorant?
CC: This is satire. It's a joke.
Be a halfwit,doofus, dumbass hick, and Jesus will ferry your ass up to heaven? What the fuck is the matter with these people? Be afraid of science. Be very, very afraid! Can you imagine all of the Gomers in that church together, in one place, at one time? All praising and worshipping some fucking meme, that has absolutely no existence, anywhere, outside of their astonishingly tiny, twisted, empty little minds?
Now I've got a fucking headache. Thanks a bunch, Revere.
It is (satire)?
Looked real enough to me. I've met people exactly like that. Lived around them, for much of my life. Back in the Midwest.
Thanks, r. I thought about it after I commented, and realized that the overacting proved it wasn't serious. Unfortunately, I'd already made a public fool of myself!
CC: You and Dylan can be forgiven for taking it as real since the real people are a parody of themselves. I know it's satire because it came from a satire site (Superdeluxe). But it could have been real.
Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512
A little more satire (or is it really?) for your Sunday evening enjoyment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P0k0Z2oLG4
Re: the Onion article posted by Edmund:
The fictional "Gabriel Burdett" is actual Nobel laureate Sir John Sulston.
See http://thoughtsontheroad.blogspot.com/2005/08/intelligent-falling.html
Here's a history of this idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_falling