When Was Gravity Created? [a Critique of Pseudoscientific Skepticism:]
**When was gravity created?** Ask yourself this question anytime you want to say of any concept or phenomenon that it lacks “scientific evidence”. So what? The Earth existed long before there was geology, and Life existed long before there was biology. We don’t invent the facts that science finds; if science truly has been based on fact, then facts precede all scientific theory and, as such, all scientific evidence. A fact is that which must remain a fact although it is ignored. How is this not the case with something like astrology? The stars existed long before there was astrology, astronomy, or astronautics. Yet the findings of astrologers are not *invalidated* by the findings of astronomers or astronauts; they simply don’t agree. The scientific landscape must be riddled with discrepancies, and even the most stringent of philosophers of science ( Bertrand Russell, for example ) say these contradictions are to be expected. We have had to deal with Gravity for centuries up...