{"id":518,"date":"2005-08-18T06:57:38","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T11:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=518"},"modified":"2005-08-18T06:57:38","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T11:57:38","slug":"on-intelligent-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"On Intelligent Falling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/news\/index.php?issue=4133&#038;n=2\">A group of evangelical scientists have proposed a new theory for why things fall to the Earth&#8211;not gravity, but &#8220;Intelligent Falling<\/a>.&#8221;  From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nProponents of Intelligent Falling assert that the different theories used by secular physicists to explain gravity are not internally consistent. Even critics of Intelligent Falling admit that Einstein&#8217;s ideas about gravity are mathematically irreconcilable with quantum mechanics. This fact, Intelligent Falling proponents say, proves that gravity is a theory in crisis.<\/p>\n<p>[SNIP]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Traditional scientists admit that they cannot explain how gravitation is supposed to work,&#8221; Carson said. &#8220;What the gravity-agenda scientists need to realize is that &#8216;gravity waves&#8217; and &#8216;gravitons&#8217; are just secular words for &#8216;God can do whatever He wants.'&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s the Onion.  Yes, it&#8217;s satire, taking a swipe at the Intelligent Design nonsense.  It&#8217;s also pretty damn funny. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of evangelical scientists have proposed a new theory for why things fall to the Earth&#8211;not gravity, but &#8220;Intelligent Falling.&#8221; From the article: Proponents of Intelligent Falling assert that the different theories used by secular physicists to explain gravity are not internally consistent. Even critics of Intelligent Falling admit that Einstein&#8217;s ideas about gravity<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=518\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Intelligent Falling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,119],"tags":[4104,991,992,369],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-politics","tag-atheism","tag-intelligent-design","tag-intelligent-falling","tag-satire","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}