{"id":298,"date":"2005-08-18T12:58:03","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T16:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2005-08-18T12:58:12","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T16:58:12","slug":"intelligent-falling-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/18\/intelligent-falling-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent Falling Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/news\/index.php?issue=4133&#038;n=2\">parody<\/a> of the intelligent design assertion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/Intelligent_Falling.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" alt=\"Intelligent Falling\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KANSAS CITY, KS\u00e2\u20ac\u201dAs the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held &#8220;theory of gravity&#8221; is flawed, and they have responded to it with a new theory of Intelligent Falling.<\/p>\n<p>Things fall not because they are acted upon by some gravitational force, but because a higher intelligence, &#8216;God&#8217; if you will, is pushing them down,&#8221; said Gabriel Burdett, who holds degrees in education, applied Scripture, and physics from Oral Roberts University&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Some evangelical physicists propose that Intelligent Falling provides an elegant solution to the central problem of modern physics.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-falling physicists have been theorizing for decades about the &#8216;electromagnetic force,&#8217; the &#8216;weak nuclear force,&#8217; the &#8216;strong nuclear force,&#8217; and so-called &#8216;force of gravity,'&#8221; Burdett said. &#8220;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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion has a parody of the intelligent design assertion. KANSAS CITY, KS\u00e2\u20ac\u201dAs the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held &#8220;theory of gravity&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-churchstate-separation","category-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}