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By Rev. Michael Skliros In his latest book, "The Grand Design," Prof. Stephen Hawking says that the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting a star other than the sun demolished the "Goldilocks" view of Isaac Newton, which was that the unique position of the earth -- not too hot, not too cold, but just right for allowing life -- could not have arisen out of chaos but must have been purposefully created, by God. The difference between us, roughly speaking, was that whereas I struggled with Poisson regression analysis, he mailed the textbook back to the author, marking all the errors in his reasoning. If you lift it beyond the Milky Way, its gravitational pull towards the classroom floor is reduced to zero -- teacher's head and the pail of water now have zero gravitational energy.
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