{"id":13270,"date":"2005-08-17T23:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/17\/intelligent-falling-2\/"},"modified":"2005-08-17T23:24:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T23:24:00","slug":"intelligent-falling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/17\/intelligent-falling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent Falling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Onion<\/i> reports on a new theory gaining ground with evangelical scientists looking for an alternative to the &ldquo;theory of gravity:&rdquo; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/news\/index.php?issue=4133&amp;n=2\" target=\"_blank\">Intelligent Falling<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Traditional scientists admit that they cannot explain how gravitation is supposed to work,&rdquo; [Intelligent Falling expert Dr. Ellen] Carson said. &ldquo;What the gravity-agenda scientists need to realize is that &lsquo;gravity waves&rsquo; and &#8216;gravitons&rsquo; are just secular words for &#8216;God can do whatever He wants.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Some evangelical physicists propose that Intelligent Falling provides an elegant solution to the central problem of modern physics.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Anti-falling physicists have been theorizing for decades about the &#8216;electromagnetic force,&rsquo; the &#8216;weak nuclear force,&rsquo; the &#8216;strong nuclear force,&rsquo; and so-called &#8216;force of gravity,&rsquo;&rdquo; [gravity critic Gabriel] Burdett said. &ldquo;And they tilt their findings toward trying to unite them into one force. But readers of the Bible have already known for millennia what this one, unified force is: His name is Jesus.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Food for thought&hellip; ;-p<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/humor\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">humor<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/science\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/religion\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">religion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-112428655851667377?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion reports on a new theory gaining ground with evangelical scientists looking for an alternative to the &ldquo;theory of gravity:&rdquo; Intelligent Falling: &ldquo;Traditional scientists admit that they cannot explain how gravitation is supposed to work,&rdquo; [Intelligent Falling expert Dr. Ellen] Carson said. &ldquo;What the gravity-agenda scientists need to realize is that &lsquo;gravity waves&rsquo; and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/17\/intelligent-falling-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Intelligent Falling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}