# Creationist almost discovers gravity **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 18, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationist-almost-discovers-gravity/388460 "2007-01-18T16:05:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationist-almost-discovers-gravity/388460/21 "2007-01-19T10:45:59Z")
Ok, here’s the challenge: let’s come up with a “coherent” set of arguments for “intelligent falling” ( **tdn** , genius). I’ll do up a website and everything. Then **Mangetout** can shill it on creationist boards. Together we can discredit them even more than they are already And if the movement gains in strength, cause an even bigger headache for educational establishments in the US: “The theory of gravity is just a theory”, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationist-almost-discovers-gravity/388460/22 "2007-01-19T10:57:20Z")
Sorry to [rain](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512?issue=4228&special=2005) on **tdn** ’s parade… (OTOH, if you really did come up with ‘Intelligent Falling’ independently, then props to you!) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationist-almost-discovers-gravity/388460/23 "2007-01-19T11:02:04Z")
Oh bugger. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationist-almost-discovers-gravity/388460/24 "2007-01-19T14:34:57Z")
There’s also the old thread [Gravitists vs. Downists](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=41058). Unfortunately this threadspotted thread is no longer visible. With a bit of luck it might live again after the server upgrade. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationist-almost-discovers-gravity/388460/25 "2007-01-19T20:25:05Z")
[QUOTE=Regallag\_The\_Axe] ::Slaps **tdn** with a herring:: Stop that, stop that! Gravity is a scientific law! It has been observed observed over and over that matter is attracted to matter. Einstein’s curved space-time is a theory, gravity is a law. Now unless anyone else wants to get herring-slapped I suggest you acknowledge the difference between scientific theories and scientific laws. [/QUOTE] Can you **prove** that things fall because of gravity, not because God is pushing them down? Thought not. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationist-almost-discovers-gravity/388460/26 "2007-01-19T20:36:49Z")
Can you prove that gods don’t believe in gravity? I don’t think so, since they are always dropping things. ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationist-almost-discovers-gravity/388460/27 "2007-01-20T01:43:53Z")
Back in my wild youth, I had a T-shirt made that said “There is NO Gravity - the Earth Sucks!” I still have it around somewhere… but unfortunately the expansion of the universe has made me too large to wear it… I blame God… FML ---
**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationist-almost-discovers-gravity/388460/28 "2007-01-20T12:09:52Z")
[QUOTE=Regallag\_The\_Axe] (I know this is joke, but) ::Slaps **tdn** with a herring:: Stop that, stop that! Gravity is a scientific law! It has been observed observed over and over that matter is attracted to matter. Einstein’s curved space-time is a theory, gravity is a law. Now unless anyone else wants to get herring-slapped I suggest you acknowledge the difference between scientific theories and scientific laws. (sorry) [/QUOTE] Hey, get your Wiki-editor hat on! From Wiki’s entry on [Theory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory): “For example, it is a fact that an apple dropped on earth has been observed to fall towards the center of the planet, and the theory which explains why the apple behaves so is the current **theory of gravitation.** ” -Tcat [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationist-almost-discovers-gravity/388460.md?page=1)