"KANSAS CITY, KS—As the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held 'theory of gravity' is flawed, and they have responded to it with a new theory of Intelligent Falling," claims The Onion.
"Things fall not because they are acted upon by some gravitational force, but because a higher intelligence, 'God' if you will, is pushing them down," said Gabriel Burdett, who holds degrees in education, applied Scripture, and physics from Oral Roberts University.
Comment: Humour aside, H. Allen Orr demolished the patently silly "Intelligent Design" idea in 1996, in a Boston Review review of Michael J Behe's book Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution. In one sentence: "The latest attack on evolution is cleverly argued, biologically informed -- and wrong."
