LTTE of the Tulsa World: "There is no scientific explanation for gravity."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Letter to the editor: Miracles, not science, can explain much

Gordon Thompson, Grove Jan 9, 2018 16

In trying to grasp how great God is, we try to pick a miracle that we can identify with.

One of my favorites is gravity. There is no scientific explanation for gravity. Gravity is one mass being attracted to another mass (any mass), and does not fit any rules of science or chemistry.

Yet, gravity is the basis for a cohesive universe and for all forms of life. Each star is placed outside of the gravitational field of every other star to prevent the collapse of the universe, and the Earth is placed just the right distance from the sun to support human life.

How great is that?

When we sing "How Great Is Our God" from our Baptist hymnal, we sing it in faith, without understanding any of the countless miracles that define how great God is.

Editor’s note: Both Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity and Isaac Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation explain gravity through science. In the language of science, the word "law" describes an analytic statement. It gives us a formula that tells us what things will do. While laws rarely change, theories change frequently as new evidence is discovered. Instead of being discarded due to new evidence, theories are often revised to include the new evidence in their explanation.

There are comments.

[redstatebluegirl]

1. Welcome to life in Oklahoma....

I quite reading the letters to the editor in the OKC paper, I can't handle the stupidity. Tulsa World normally is a bit better but not this time.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. So now God is the explanation for gravity?

Dude, it's physics.

[Iggo]

5. I don't even care if the morons want to say their god invented gravity...

...as long as they admit how and why it works!

(Well, yeah, I care.)

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

3. There is no gravity

The world sucks.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. My cats would disagree with you. They test it constantly

by shoving things off tables. And it works every time.

[MineralMan]

10. That is most certainly true.

[Raster]

12. I see what you did there...

...

[MineralMan]

4. Worst of all, the guy teaches science!

Not really, but it could happen in Oklahoma.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Somehow I Think He's Not Teaching At All

Regurgitation of stuff you don't understand isn't teaching! My dog could do what this moron does!

[Solly Mack]

6. Damn

[Orsino]

9. tldr; "I want my own version of god to be as accepted and inarguable as gravity." n/t

[0rganism]

11. does this mean the fundy nutjobs are done with evolution already?

are theories of gravity on track to be the new primary target for the anti-science crew, or is it going to be one of many?

[ProudLib72]

13. Jaybus created gravity. Everyone knows that

There was no gravity before Jaybus. Everyone just floated around like Barron Harkonnen in Dune. Then came the "Down to Earth" doctrine of xtianity. That's when shoes were invented, too, and the concept of walking (running came later). Everyone always wonders how those big dinosaurs could have supported their massive weight. Well, there were no dinosaurs, only God putting weird bones in the ground to confuse heretical scientists. But if there had been dinosaurs, they would have floated around just as easy as a bird. So now you are asking yourself, "What about those couple of people who existed in the Old Testament before Jaybus?" Yes, Methuselah floated around as well. He floated around for, like, a thousand years. And Noah floated! How else do you think a little rain could have drowned everyone, huh? Well, duh, where do people float and where does it rain? In the air, of course! Only God instructed Noah to make a water proof flying saucer to float through the sky water called "rain". Everyone else besides Noah just sucked the rain into their lungs and drowned way up in the air.

Composed by Pickle PhD.

[dalton99a]

14. There is no scientific explanation for his idiocy

Perhaps he was born an idiot