Is this a widdle-take or not?

Question

I mentioned this site in passing the other day, but I thought it was worth bringing up again, because I really can't work out if it's a very clever parody or a very scary serious concept. My husband had the same reaction - we'd so like to believe it's a joke, but there are a lot of wack-jobs out there....

So, please peruse and opine on the following
http://www.intelligent-forces.com/

Thanks for the link to the Onion (I LOVE the Onion!) but unfortunately if you follow it up a bit that article appears in all sorts of places and I'm afraid to say it does seem to be a real movement. While the Intelligent Forces site might not be kosher, there really do seem to be people out there being, well, out there!

Answer 1

What a load of malarky! Man... what will they come up with next?!

Thanks for the points and making me laugh. XD

Answer 2

Clever parody.
The Theory of Intelligent Falling has been around for a few years now as a parody, played very straight, unlike the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512

Answer 3

I think the whole thing has come about because science has gotten sloppy. When I was in school and earning my degree in Biology the distinction between a theory and a scientific law were very clear. A theory was a concept that needed to be proven by scientific research that could be replicated by other scientists following your experimental steps. When something could be repeated and documented to be accurate consistently it became known as a scientific law. Most scientific laws can be stated in mathematical terms.

Now days it seems scientists are using the words theory, hypothesis and scientific law interchangeably. It makes no sense to me except to give people grounds to push their agenda or make arguments for a theory on the grounds it's a scientific law without have replicatable data. It's extremely sloppy and unscientific. It opens the door for falsifying data as well as giving people like those of the website you've indicated grounds for denying something that is a measurable and provable fact.

Answer 4

Sounds like the old "earth carried on the backs of 4 turtles" theory all over again.

Gravity is still here. Of course, who is the Intelligent Force who thought up the idea of gravitational pull in the first place?

Answer 5

It's a wind-up, parodying Intelligent Design.

Answer 6

That is HYSTERICAL!!

Of course it's a parody of religious anti-evolution sites. Look at the events section - that's all the proof you need that it's not on the level.

Answer 7

We discussed this a few weeks back - it is indeed a theory, but one that has yet to be disproven.

remember, it's the internet - ANYONE can put up a page about anything. Look into the church of the pink unicorn or pastafarians -

Answer 8

Jeepers!

Answer 9

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." Such is the case with both Intelligent Falling and Intelligent Design, two valid and well-supported scientific alternatives to atheistic naturalism.

Any reasonable, informed person would agree with me in saying that gravitationism is not any stronger of a theory than evolutionism is. Both are equally vulnerable to creationism.

Answer 10

definitely a parody