Thursday, September 06, 2007

Why Newton Would be Rejected by Modern Science

Ben Stein, Intelligent Design Champion, says “In today’s world, at least in America, an Einstein or a Newton or a Galileo would probably not be allowed to receive grants to study or to publish his research.”

I think he is right, although not for the reasons he thinks:

Dear Mr. Newton,

Your work on planetary motion and mechanics has an elegant simplicity about it, but we feel it is not advanced enough for this peer-reviewed journal. In fact, it appears to be nothing more than simple high-school level physics and calculus. It is almost as if you are unaware of 300 years of advancement in scientific theory. If this is a joke, we are not amused.

Regards,

The Journal of Orbital Mechanics

6 comments:

Fingtree said...

Who is Newton? Fox news has never mentioned him. Was he one of those *&%^$ Liberals?

brownie said...

Huh?

Fingtree said...

Damn Brownie, don't tell me your confused. It's a joke, aimed at the ignorance of the right. Perhaps you lean a little to far right and it went (right)over your head. That was a joke too by the way..

Dan S said...

Hey, joking is not allowed on this blog. Cut it out, man.

Fingtree said...

Please forgive me Dan. It's been so long since I have read the Blogspot Code of Conduct manual, I inadvertantly forgot the no joking clause. From now on I'll keep it to an Anne Coulter type funny.

brownie said...

Huh?