A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?

[LastPoet]

I think an atheist would say "Sorry not a physicist  "  but even if the pennies floated up that would not disprove gravity. And even if it did why must we turn to unnatural forces to explain it?

Yeh but...Helicopters:;

I shit you knot.

[chimp3]

I pick up pennies when I see them. I have a jar to put them in. I also throw the pennies from my pocket there too. My workplace chooses a charity to do a fundraiser for each year. I donate those pennies plus more. So , I would say: "Thanks for dropping pennies!" .

[Whateverist]

Let’s say I drop a penny on the floor fifty times to demonstrate the law of gravity.
Agnostic: How do you know it won’t fly into the air if you drop it one more time?
Theist: My god can make the penny fly into the air the next time you drop it. But don’t actually try it. Thou shalt not tempt the lord thy god.
Deist: Yes, there’s something making that penny drop.

Now, what might an atheist say?

Heads it's gravity, tails god loses?

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Worst helicopter gif ever .. it isn't even moving.  

[Mystical]

I'm confused about your use of Agnostic. What do you mean when you think of this particular category?

[Astonished]

Let’s say I drop a penny on the floor fifty times to demonstrate the law of gravity.
Agnostic: How do you know it won’t fly into the air if you drop it one more time?
Theist: My god can make the penny fly into the air the next time you drop it. But don’t actually try it. Thou shalt not tempt the lord thy god.
Deist: Yes, there’s something making that penny drop.

Now, what might an atheist say?

Can't really speak for an atheist, it's an insufficient label that doesn't prevent you from believing in other woo. To be fair you'd also ask what would a rational skeptic say. Which, in that case...

"Well, I seem to be sticking the ground myself without flying off into space and I've never experienced any lapse in whatever force is keeping me grounded so it does not appear to fluctuate in either strength or consistency, ergo there's no justifiable reason to believe anything in a solid state is able to remain suspended indefinitely, at least within the atmosphere of a planetary mass. But there are still questions and facets to explore and I shall happily do so as I have an endless thirst for knowledge and get a deep fulfillment from experimenting and learning and improving my understanding, discarding failed hypotheses and revising my opinion about whatever I've been convinced of if new evidence is compelling enough. Even if there was a supernatural component behind these things, by its nature it is impossible to investigate and is therefore irrelevant."

[Whateverist]

What an atheist would never answer:

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Anyone know what I'm doing wrong to get a video to post?

[Cyberman]

I would say "Pennies have never flown upwards any time I dropped them. They have fallen downwards every single time. I will bet you one penny that it will fall downwards the next time. Then two pennies the time after, then four the time after that. I am confident enough in the laws of physics to put my money where my mouth is - are you as confident in your god?"

[Cyberman]

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong to get a video to post?

Don't have spaces inside the tags.

[vorlon13]

A penny is a VERY large object for Heisenbergian hijinks, however, if you try it enough times . . . . .


If Alex wants to take a stab at the math that would be fine, my best calculator only goes up to 9.999999999 X 10^499

[Succubus]

I'm too old for the experiment, all that unpleasant bending. Why not use a fifty pence piece?