Dr. Ben Carson: Where does gravity come from? Maybe God?

[DetlefK]

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/5-right-wing-idiocies-week-oreillys-dangerous-gun-violence-delusion

“Gravity, where did it come from? I mean, there are so many things,” he said, in a riff on his skepticism regarding the ‘Big Bang’ theory vs. Biblical creation. “I don’t denigrate the people who say ‘Eh, eh, whatever, somehow it happened.’ I don’t denigrate them. I just don’t have that much faith.”

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Dr. Ben Carson, an educated man, notes how it takes a leap of faith to accept the notion of "gravity". On the other hand, he seems to have no problems finding enough faith to believe other explanations.




The philosophy of unthinking, independent laws of nature that are accessible to anyone (not exclusively to God) appeared about 500 years ago, during the european Renaissance. (Of course, the first postulated laws of nature were magical laws. But the underlying mindset paved the way for science.) That means that your way of thinking is literally medieval, Dr. Carson.

[Frank Cannon]

1. Presumably, this tool took college-level laboratory science courses.

Which, yes, include biology and physics. So WTF happened to him?

[longship]

2. Seventh Day Adventism!

They are loony about these things. And don't get me started about their thoughts on Saturday sabbath, which are particularly loony.

That said, I have never met a SDA adherent that I did not like. But their beliefs are a bit crazy. And no, I do not want Dr. Carson anywhere near the White House.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. That's probably what he was up to w. the "throwing rocks at cars" escapade.

A science experiment.

Simply testing a hypothesis: "What goes up...."

[trusty elf]

4. An old man in the sky somewhere waved his magic wand, and voilà!

That's an explanation?



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[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. Who'd ever have thought that with Trump running for president, Ben Carson would be the comic relief?

[Initech]

6. Paging Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson! You are needed for debate! Paging Dr. Tyson!

[HereSince1628]

7. last election the question re gravity was "where do tides come from?"

I seem to associate this with Bill O'reilly but I don't trust my memory on that.

I suspect there is a book/tract out in there in fundamentalist christendom that gets into the question of the mechanism that result in gravitational attraction.

I don't read such books. I haven't read one of those things since I read Gish on re: the evolution of fish back in the '70's'.

But these repeated similar ejaculations on the failings of science usually share a single source. Fundamentalists are eager to place gods in the gaps of understanding, because pretty clearly the gods have been chased from everywhere understanding exists.

[longship]

8. I know where tides come from.

A critical mass of loofah.