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My friend sez the General Theory of Relativity is Bullshit. He says, there's no such thing as "space-time" or gravity as a curve. He thinks it's just a "force" that is unexplainable...


Any good raep lines to prove him absolutely wrong???

Newton WAS posing theories, however he was able to back up what he said with experimental evidence that people could reproduce. Unfortunately, no one that I know of can reproduce the evolution of life, only infer it's occurence through the fossil record. That's one reason the creationists can get away with bashing evolution(aside from constitutional freedom of expression). The moment somebody does a lab experiment where they make one species evolve into another or document such a thing CURRENTLY happening in the wild(no fossils; actual live animals), creationists will once again have to shut up and revise their stance(the last incident I remember hearing about had something to do with Galileo, the Catholic Church, and whether or not the sun revolved around the Earth--Galileo won, but the church just changed their stance and probably went looking for other targets; if there are more instances of this, I missed them). I've a feeling they're good at that.

Of course Darwin was religious, a lot of great scientists are or were religious: Rather that use their ideas to prove or disprove god, they use them to show us the wonder of what is and how best to use that knowledge. Unfortunately, everyone else decided the best use was to make more and better weapons and to attack religion: either to try to take its place(wanting the same control of the hearts and minds and donation money of the masses) or to shut them up because church's moral doctrines(no killing, stealing, etc...) show some people in a BAD light(talk about the pot calling the kettle black: religious leaders do their fair share of dirt too). However, my point once again, is that theories, however useful, however compelling, do NOT have to be taken as irrefutable facts by people who don't want to BECAUSE they are still works in progress with kinks that have still to be worked out(they're always under revision and retesting as scientists look for, and find, more evidence to either prove or disprove various aspects of any given theory) before concrete laws can be stated. It was NOT my intent to say creationism up and down with evolution or any other theory.

And don't worry about a wrong link, at least you can do one. I'm still figuring out how.