From: "Robert Comer" 

I was thinking that very thing on my way in to work, it's irrelevant that
we don't know the base origin of gravity, it's enough that we can measure
it and predict its effect.

--
Bob Comer


"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
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> Newton's theory of gravity is still good enough to navigate the solar
> system. It's clearly a pretty good model of reality.
>
> Paul
>
> "Steve Ewing"  wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:58:21 -0500, Gary Britt
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>  For 300 years all the
>>> John Becketts and Steve Ewings of the world had *faith* in the
>>> correctness of the theory of gravity, however.  What guesses do you hold
>>> dear today that will be replaced by new guesses 300 years from now?
>>
>> And all that time the theory was being tested, and when increasing
>> observational accuracy produced results that didn't jibe with the theory,
>> out it went.
>>
>> To date, the theory of evolution is passing its tests; its predictions
>> are holding up.  ID, on the other hand, has failed coming out of the box.
>>
>> --
>> Steve 
>> http://www.qmss.com/~sewing
>
>

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