Political Games - Where the fuck’s the reset button?

Because that’s always fun. This is a bit lengthy and wordy, and the video size sucks, but it’s worth watching. Really does a nice job explaining why American corporationism [it’s not capitalism] is screwing over everyone not in the top 20%.

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At least, I hope it’s satire… via Pharyngula, we “learn” that, indeed, gravity is “only” a theory! Read the whole thing, but here’s a couple great parts.

“Things fall not because they are acted upon by some gravitational force, but because a higher intelligence, ‘God’ if you will, is pushing them down,” said Gabriel Burdett, who holds degrees in education, applied Scripture, and physics from Oral Roberts University.

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Founded in 1987, the ECFR is the world’s leading institution of evangelical physics, a branch of physics based on literal interpretation of the Bible.

According to the ECFR paper published simultaneously this week in the International Journal Of Science and the adolescent magazine God’s Word For Teens!, there are many phenomena that cannot be explained by secular gravity alone, including such mysteries as how angels fly, how Jesus ascended into Heaven, and how Satan fell when cast out of Paradise.

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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’s ideas about gravity are mathematically irreconcilable with quantum mechanics. This fact, Intelligent Falling proponents say, proves that gravity is a theory in crisis.

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“Traditional scientists admit that they cannot explain how gravitation is supposed to work,” Carson said. “What the gravity-agenda scientists need to realize is that ‘gravity waves’ and ‘gravitons’ are just secular words for ‘God can do whatever He wants.’”

Some evangelical physicists propose that Intelligent Falling provides an elegant solution to the central problem of modern physics.

“Anti-falling physicists have been theorizing for decades about the ‘electromagnetic force,’ the ‘weak nuclear force,’ the ’strong nuclear force,’ and so-called ‘force of gravity,’” Burdett said. “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.”

The most frightening part about this is that it sounds EXACTLY like Intelligent Design. And, to someone with an untrained eye, it might actually fool them. There actually are a few holes in the gravitational theory; we actually don’t know what causes the force of attraction, and Einstein’s theory does not agree with quantum physics. This doesn’t invalidate the entire theory of gravity of course; and neither do the holes in the theory of evolution. That’s why ID is bullshit, and why it shouldn’t ever be taught as a valid theory. I have no problem with teachers discussing the flaws in current scientific theories; but to bring non-scientific theories into the mix only makes things worse.

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