{"id":1207,"date":"2005-10-06T18:27:16","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T01:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2005-10-06T18:27:16","modified_gmt":"2005-10-07T01:27:16","slug":"on-the-so-called-force-of-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/06\/on-the-so-called-force-of-gravity\/","title":{"rendered":"On the so-called &#8220;force of gravity&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re just too easy to parody&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blockquote\">The Onion: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/39512\">Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New &#8216;Intelligent Falling&#8217; Theory<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, KS\u2014As 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>&#8220;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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/39512\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8230;and yet I wouldn&#8217;t be too surprised if this were true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re just too easy to parody&#8230; The Onion: Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New &#8216;Intelligent Falling&#8217; Theory KANSAS CITY, KS\u2014As 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-jt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}