Tuesday, August 02, 2005  Teach aether theory WASHINGTON --
President Bush said Monday he believes schools should discuss
"intelligent design" alongside evolution when teaching students
about the creation of life.    We should have enough faith in
our kids to trust them to make up their own minds when presented
with two theories. After all, this a democracy; shouldn't the
majority rule? Teach the gravity controversy.  Gravityism makes
no sense. The dogmatic Newtonists would have us believe that
things fall because of an invisible force, that we are unable to
copy or reproduce in the laboratory, that pulls things together,
with little things falling inevitably toward bigger things. If
hold my coffee cup out at an arm's length and let go, the cup
falls down and not towards my chest. Yet my chest is bigger than
the cup and closer than the ground. If there was anything to
this "gravity" stuff, the cup should fall towards me. The
Gravityists will try to say that the cup falls towards the Earth
because the Earth is