How nice to hear from you directly.
Having grown up on the coast of Maine, and spent many a summer at the
Jersey shore, I certainly can appreciate the phenomenon of 'tides.'
However, I'm not sure I got your point...would you elucidate?
Thanks, Gary
>W Ramsay wrote:
>
> Lois Shawver writes:
>
> >Gary,
> >
> <snip>
>
> >You said:
> >> .. I continue to be amazed that some people find it
> >> invalid to distinguish between gravity and God.
>
> <snip>
>
> >What is so unclear here?
>
> >> I don't get it. Gravity IS, and everything works in concert with its
> >> predictable presence. 'God' is a term that is meaningful to some people
> >> and not to others, but can be shown not to have the same status as the
> >> gravity principle.
> >
> >> That's all I'm saying. If you disagree, then I guess you're the kind of
> >> person who creates their own private standards and universe, and lives
> >> according to them, with proof assumed.
> >
> >I think your way of putting it makes it sound like Newtonian science
> >wasn't challenged by relativity theory, quantum mechanics. The fact that
> >it was leaves us thinking that science not not establish fact in the
> >unambiguous way we use to think. Bohr's concept of the planetary atom,
> >with electrons in orbit, no longer seems right.
>
> Gary,
>
> Before you ask, go to somewhere where there's an ocean and watch the tides.
> What you see ain't the effects of gravity, it's space-time distortion.
> Incredible, ain't it?
>
> Gravity IS .. Good God!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Bill.
>
> Bill Ramsay,
> Dept. of Educational Studies,
> University of Strathclyde,
> Jordanhill Campus,
> GLASGOW,
> G13 1PP,
> Scotland.
>
> 'phone: +44 (0)141 950 3364
> 'fax: +44 (0)141 950 3367
> e-mail: w.ramsay@strath.ac.uk
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