Question:
I'm a Christian and I believe that gravity doesn't exist, do you believe in gravity? Why or why not?
Jericho
2017-09-08 05:28:48 UTC
Gravity isn’t necessary to explain why things fall. Things fall not because of an invisible pull, but simply because there is nothing underneath them. If the Earth’s gravity is strong enough to hold the moon in orbit and is strongest at the surface (strength of gravity increases and decreases by distance), then logically, seagulls shouldn’t be able to fly and I shouldn’t be able to jump off the ground because the Earth’s gravity should be pulling me and the birds down. However, the fact that I can jump and the fact that gravity cannot be felt like magnetism highly suggests that gravity does not exist. The moon and the sun don’t fall, not because of gravity, but because of electromagnetic levitation.

NIKOLA TESLA: "Earth is a realm, it is not a planet. It is not an object, therefore, it has no edge. Earth would be more easily defined as a system environment. Earth is also a machine, it is a Tesla coil. The sun and moon are powered wirelessly with the electromagnetic field (the Aether). This field also suspends the celestial spheres with elector-magnetic levitation. Electromagnetic levitation disproves gravity because the only force you need to counter is the electromagnetic force, not gravity. The stars are attached to the FIRMAMENT."

Watch video -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9OTL-5eLT0
Eleven answers:
Annsan_In_Him
2017-09-08 06:05:48 UTC
If you are a Christian, you would not be wasting your time on here denying gravity on the R&S site. You would have posted in the Science section and would never have mentioned being a Christian because Christianity has nothing to say about the matter of gravity, any more than it has anything to say on the matter of planets. (Only stars, sun and moon are mentioned in the Bible - the word 'planets' could not be coined until telescopes were invented and the differences spotted.)



If you are a Christian, you would want to share the good news (the gospel) with people on the R&S site, not act obsessed about a technicality that has nothing to do with being a Christian. Nobody's salvation depends on their stance about gravity. Why are you wasting time and space wittering on about it here? Go move your question to the Science section.
Bugatti
2017-09-09 05:33:59 UTC
"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it." -Neil deGrasse Tyson

All good science, especially gravity, is evident and infallible through simple observation and the basic concepts of math. Please don't express disbelief that math isn't real.
2017-09-08 19:36:59 UTC
Jericho,



You claim that you do not believe in gravity, but you believe in electromagnetic forces, correct? Neither of these forces contradict Christian teaching, in fact they can both point toward a Creator. The formula for calculating the force of gravity is F = G*M1*M2/r^2. Where G is a measured constant, M1 and M2 are the masses of the objects in question, and r is the distance between the two objects. (This is why gravity can hold the moon in place but we can jump, the moon weights about 7.3*10^22 kg (or 730000000000000000000000 kg) and we weight about 60 kg, so the force of gravity on the moon is that many times stronger than the force on us!) The gravity constant G is about 6.674*10^-11 m^3 kg^-1 s^-1. (don't worry if you don't know what that means, its small number). Meanwhile the electomagnetic force is calculated by F = k * Q1 *Q2 / r^2, and the constant k is 9 * 10^9 ( a large number). Both of these constants, K and G, are extremely precise and fine tuned. If gravity were any stronger, starts would collapse into black holes, and if it were weaker they would just be collections of dust. If the electromagnetic force constant was stronger then electrons in atoms would enter the nucleus of atoms and chaos would follow. If it were weaker, electrons would exit the electron clouds and nothing good would happen. (I'm no nuclear physicist ok!). The fact that both of these constants are exactly what was necessary for life to exist points toward a planned universe. You should look this up its very interesting!



You said that things fall when you remove something underneath them, but why do they fall? anything you drop will fall if there is empty space underneath it, and they are all attracted to the center of mass of Earth. you could perhaps attribute this to the electromagnetic force, but that would mean that all objects would need to be charged the such an extent that the force could produce that kind of acceleration.If an apple were charge to that extent it would rip itself apart! (lets say the earth is negative and the apple is positive because opposite charges attract. Positive charges repel other positive charges, so the apple would repel itself and same goes for the earth.) Ionic compounds wouldn't be able to exist because there wouldn't be enough electrons!



You said gravity is used to explain planetary evolution, which is true. Of course, not all Christians believe that planetary evolution is false (a whole other discussion), but lets say you're in the camp that Christianity is only true if planetary evolution didn't happen. (AKA God made everything as it is instantly). With this logic, if you know God is real, then planetary evolution has to be false. However, this doesn't prove that gravity has to be false, and I will explain how. Lets say you come home and the oven is on and the there is a fresh cake on the counter. You're not sure how either of these things got there, but you assume that someone used the oven to bake the cake. Of course, the cake could have just appeared there, but that doesn't mean that the oven isn't turned on, because you can still observe that. Another example, you walk into a room and read a clock that says 3:30. it is ticking and will soon hit 3:31. Most people think that since it is ticking now it was ticking at 3:29 and just turned, but could it not have been set just prior to you walking in the door? If it was, this does not mean that the clock has to set every minute, perhaps the person who set the clock also wound it up so that it will keep ticking in the future.



You also mentioned a quote of Tesla. Just because a famous person said something doesn't make it true. Just look at ancient scientist thinking that the sun revolved around the earth.



One final point (for the Christians reading this). God made us as rational creatures. with rational thought comes science. He knew we would explore the world that he has made, so he made laws of nature for us to discover. He would not make anything that would disprove himself because he is a just God, therefore all science points toward God.



If any of my science or logic is wrong please let me know I don't want to lead people astray.
2017-09-08 15:07:49 UTC
Where in the Bible does it say that gravity does not exist?



You can believe what you like, scientists have the answer.
Andrew Smith
2017-09-08 13:57:54 UTC
Through eons, religion has been associated with mindlessness and lack of thought.



The dark ages were one with the growth of blind belief and superstition. Great for religion and terrible for humanity.



What you believe is your own affair. Telling us that you believe in something ( the tooth fairy or the easter bunny) is hardly relevant.



However you do a great disservice to Christians everywhere by claiming to represent them.
Firestormer
2017-09-08 06:46:35 UTC
It is nice that you went to all the trouble of creating an account, just to make a complete fool of yourself.



Well done and keep up the good work, you moron.
Chris Ancor
2017-09-08 06:00:54 UTC
I seem to believe gravity exists but I don't understand it at all.
jcastro
2017-09-08 05:37:12 UTC
Do you even know what gravity is?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity



Gravity exists - its existence was proved since Newton's time, and reinterpreted as a curvature in spacetime, caused by mass, by the theory of General Relativity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity



No belief is needed for gravity; it already exists.
2017-09-08 05:35:22 UTC
Well, magnetism has a push and a pull side, that's why compasses point North, and magnets have two sides. Something to do with the electrons negativity or something. There's a lot we don't know, and a lot the average person doesn't know, but they recently did some tests that they said prove that gravity works as a wave. A wave of what, we still don't really know, but it has something to do with the fabric of space time being bent by the existence of energy or mass. Wherever there is stuff, it causes a pull towards it, but sometimes this can be balanced by for example solar winds or dark energy, or the speed of a circular orbit pushing out, like Mercury.
2017-09-08 05:32:45 UTC
Somebody throw an apple at this idiot's head. Continue until he figures out why gravity is a thing.
daylily61
2017-09-08 05:57:35 UTC
I'm a Christian and I think you're just a troll trolling.


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