Stump the Christian?

[Anima]

Rob, doesn't it seem perfectly natural that sciences owns the real material world, and the minute some comes along without an explanation, it must be the work of "their" god!
The thought that it might be someone else's god, we'll that's just being stupid now...

These guys are completely barking mad!

I liked this. Only because it seems perfectly natural that Newtonian Physics and Gravitational Theory (that is right. It is a theory best described by general relativity) owns the real material world. As pragmatic as it would be to say that nothing exists which is not described by Newtonian Physics and Gravitational Theory, saying such would eliminate entire class of the physical world (quantum mechanics)

And by the way. When there are anomalies in the gravitational theory. The common proposal is to some aether or ethereal substance such as dark matter or dark energy.

"Extra-fast stars: Stars in galaxies follow a distribution of velocities where stars on the outskirts are moving faster than they should according to the observed distributions of normal matter. Galaxies within galaxy clusters show a similar pattern. Dark matter, which would interact gravitationally but not electromagnetically, would account for the discrepancy. Various modifications to Newtonian dynamics have also been proposed.
Flyby anomaly: Various spacecraft have experienced greater acceleration than expected during gravity assist maneuvers."

"Accelerating expansion: The metric expansion of space seems to be speeding up. Dark energy has been proposed to explain this. A recent alternative explanation is that the geometry of space is not homogeneous (due to clusters of galaxies) and that when the data are reinterpreted to take this into account, the expansion is not speeding up after all,[29] however this conclusion is disputed.[30]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity#Ano...crepancies

(Because it would be ridiculous to say there are ethereal things that are not simply stuff. Ethereal stuff...okay. Ethereal things...Possibly. Ethereal stuff or things with sentience as to qualify as being. YOU ARE A NUT!!!)