Should gravity be taught in our public schools?

Answer 1

No. Just "intelligent falling."
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Answer 2

Recently I learned that my grandson had been taught about gravity in school. I am considering a law suite against them.

According to their theory, gravity keeps the earth revolting around the sun. The moment I was told that, I was beganing to suspect that a law suit was needed. After all, if you take the time to actually read about the sun, you will discover that it has been worshipped as a GOD by difference groups throughout history!! There are even religions based on belief in the sun. Religion should have no place in school!!

They have build whole theories about the existence of the sun. They use it to explain things like where light comes from. Instead of conducting real science and looking for the facts, they just say "It comes from the sun. The sun creates it." There is no place in science for the sun. After all, it is part of some people's religion so it has to be non-scientific, and any scientist who believes in it is an ignorant boob.

People have told me that if I were to go outside and look up, I could see the sun. So at midnight last night I went out and looked. Guess what - NO SUN!! I have proven that it does not exist. I can't see it.

There are articles in the newspaper that claim the sun raises every day. But when I compared a couple of those articles, one said the sun would rise a 6:54 in the morning. One from another day said it would raise at 7:32. Which is it? They contradict each other, so they can not be true, and the sun does not exist.

The sun has to be removed from all school textbooks, because religions have been based on it. It can not be mentioned as having influenced history in any way. The sun has been responsible for more wars that anything else - as the armies as always "attacking at dawn" - so it is the sun's fault. Any attempt to use the sun to explain the existence of life have to be removed from textbooks. Any pictures of the sun have to be removed from classrooms. They would be establishing "sun worship". "Sunday" can not longer be given as a day off from work - that establishes a religion. Anybody who shows up at school with a suntan would have to be banned for daring to make an open display of belief in the existence of the sun.

So what do you think? Do I have the basis for a law suite?

Answer 3

Bad analogy. No one seriously questions gravity these days, whereas some of the ideas being presented as proof of evolution have been in some cases outright false or highly questionable. I suggest the drawings of haecknels embryo's which have been known to be false for more than a hundred years. Then there is Darwin's finches which lost their extended beaks after periods of drought ended thus giving these birds no conclusive change. The there is the peppered moths which were staged on a tree trunk which they do not land on. Then there is the Cambrian explosion which nobody seems to like to talk about. Apparently most the life forms appeared suddenly in the fossil records with no apparent predecessors. The findings in the Burgess shale only added to the dilemma. (However if you have serious problems with the law of gravity I suggest talking to a physics teacher or go jump off a cliff. 35 feet per second.

Answer 4

As how the public school system is dumbing down the entrants, do you really believe that teaching gravity, I am sure that you are referring to Sir Isaac Newtons findings, and not the gravity "seriousness of a situation" will be grasped by todays children?

Answer 5

I believe that any viable theory should be taught in our schools. I believe that much of the bible should be taught in our schools. There is a written history. In fact more history that most sciences. But we will teach sciences that have been disproven and each day proven wrong, but yet we do not teach that part of history, the biblical, beacuse science cannot prove his existance. Science to date really cant absolutely proove anything, they only theories of how and why.
Our country was founded on a freedom of religion free from governmental controls. When you teach what has been written as it is written then the government is not in control even if the government financially supports the school.
No wonder we have become so immoral. No wonder our children are killing each other. No wonder mothers kill their babies. No wonder.

Answer 6

Yes. It should be taught that since it's only a theory it needs to be tested. Perhaps the students can throw all the fundies out the window as an experiment to find out if that theory makes any sense in reality.

Then perhaps we can bring the church back into our schools and do a scientific test of truth by calling on God to be in the room. If someone shows up, we'll know for sure it's real and then we can all worship as one, and those mothers will stop killing their babies! No one killed anyone in Biblical times!

Eureka!

Answer 7

No. Absolutely not! If we begin teaching and promoting unholy radical ideas like that on the basis of an apple dropping on someones head, we are opening up our schools for all sorts of radical and unfounded ideas like the Big Bang and Evolutionists. Let us of more calm and rational minds control the future generations of our offspring. Let us just stick to the Holy Bible forever. That's the only text we will ever need. BB

Answer 8

No--they're already too low. I artwork in a technologies employer and we've large concern looking those with PhDs in math and physics who can artwork out the main substantial factors that takes an thought from thought to utility. good now we are falling in the back of the the remainder of the international at a swifter fee than we ever have till now. in the previous, we surpassed the international whilst it got here to scientific advances. those days, we practice the international and the human beings we practice take that education lower back to their homestead countries. And on the value that we are falling in the back of, as greater professors retire, we will not have the flexibility to even do this anymore in the close to destiny. we are dropping our babies by using no longer making an investment in our common and severe colleges.

Answer 9

I think the gravity of the situation, that we are all destined to die, should be clearly impressed upon the minds of children, as it appears to have escaped the notice of most adults.

Answer 10

It's just a theory, being pushed down our throats by radical, closed-minded Gravitists. Next thing you know, they'll try to teach that the earth is round, or that dinosaurs walked the earth millions of years ago, as if they have any way of proving that!

Answer 11

Only if you haven't paid your gravity bill.
Then, you'll need some sort of explanation as to why your rear-end hurts when you slip on a banana peel.