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<blockquote data-quote="Agonaces of Susa" data-source="post: 53872263" data-attributes="member: 253233"><p>Gravitation or magic?</p><p></p><p>"All the terms used in the science books, 'law,' 'necessity,' 'order,' 'tendency,' and so on, are really unintellectual .... The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in the fairy books, 'charm,' 'spell,' 'enchantment.' They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery. A tree grows fruit because it is a MAGIC tree. Water runs downhill because it is bewitched. The sun shines because it is bewitched. I deny altogether that this is fantastic or even mystical. We may have some mysticism later on; but this fairy-tale language about things is simply rational and agnostic." -- G. K. Chesterton, writer, Orthodoxy, Chapter IV: The Ethics of Elfland, 1909</p><p></p><p></p><p>Because Isaac Newton's hypothesis of gravitation specifically replies upon God, divine intervention, and miracle works. </p><p></p><p>Without God, gravitation is impossible.</p><p></p><p>"...lest the systems of the fixed stars should, by their gravity, fall on each other, he [God] hath placed those systems at immense distances from one another." -- Isaac Newton, mathematician, 1687</p><p></p><p>"...to establish it [gravitation] as original or primitive in certain parts of matter is to resort either to miracle or an imaginary occult quality." -- Gottfreid W. Leibniz, polymath, July 1710</p><p></p><p></p><p>Ad hominem fallacy?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Why wouldn't he?</p><p></p><p>If a neurosurgeon says 2+2=4 do you automatically conclude that 2+2=5?</p><p></p><p></p><p>LOL. Good one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Agonaces of Susa, post: 53872263, member: 253233"] Gravitation or magic? "All the terms used in the science books, 'law,' 'necessity,' 'order,' 'tendency,' and so on, are really unintellectual .... The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in the fairy books, 'charm,' 'spell,' 'enchantment.' They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery. A tree grows fruit because it is a MAGIC tree. Water runs downhill because it is bewitched. The sun shines because it is bewitched. I deny altogether that this is fantastic or even mystical. We may have some mysticism later on; but this fairy-tale language about things is simply rational and agnostic." -- G. K. Chesterton, writer, Orthodoxy, Chapter IV: The Ethics of Elfland, 1909 Because Isaac Newton's hypothesis of gravitation specifically replies upon God, divine intervention, and miracle works. Without God, gravitation is impossible. "...lest the systems of the fixed stars should, by their gravity, fall on each other, he [God] hath placed those systems at immense distances from one another." -- Isaac Newton, mathematician, 1687 "...to establish it [gravitation] as original or primitive in certain parts of matter is to resort either to miracle or an imaginary occult quality." -- Gottfreid W. Leibniz, polymath, July 1710 Ad hominem fallacy? Why wouldn't he? If a neurosurgeon says 2+2=4 do you automatically conclude that 2+2=5? LOL. Good one. [/QUOTE]
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