Those Gentle Readers who have an interest in matters scientific or Canadian should probably read The Wrathful Dispersion controversy: A Canadian perspective, over at q_pheever’s Roguish Chrestomathy. It’s a good outsider’s primer to the controversy here about what to teach in the schools and how.
Similarly, it has been presented to me (by a Gentle Reader of this Tohu Bohu) that gravity, that unseen and mysterious force, is scarcely as plausible as what he calls Intelligent Falling and I might choose to call Special Providence. When a sparrow falls, is it more likely that some invisible force is acting on it without special providence or with special providence? The so-called scientists who cling to the Theory of Gravity (and I should emphasize that it is only a Theory) have been unable to explain why this gravity should exist or what it consists of. In fact, when pressed, they turn to the idea that gravity is ‘everywhere’, that it is ‘invisible’, that it ‘acts on everything’, that nothing escapes it. In other words, these scienticians are nothing more than religionists in disguise, and it is only stubbornness that keeps them from allowing Special Providence from being taught right alongside Newton as a way of punishing fourteen-year-olds.
chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek,
-Vardibidian.