Quote Originally Posted by BigTex
Except the minor fact that currently his thoeries on gravity say that with the universes current known mass it should collapse on its self. With the exception of the possible existance of dark matter, there's no explanation for this except that the formula's are incorrect.
Not quite true, and more mixing other theories up with Newtonian Gravity. There are 3 broad cases of how the universe will go, static, collapse and ever expanding cold death. Sub categories of these have already been disproven enough for now to move on (until we build better models of nature)... for instance the infinite in age and infinite in size static universe should appear as a solid mass of light as no matter where we look we would stare at a star, while a rapidly collapsing universe has at least one boundary to the timeline... the age of our universe, clearly anything that collapsed in a million years would not be around for us to observe from within. A slowly collapsing universe might be true if we can find enough matter and that we definitively understand gravity on a intra-galactic level. Newtonian Gravity would explain an eventually collapsing universe if we had more (not less) dark matter, it would also explain the rotational speed of galaxies if we had more dark matter.

However Newtonian Gravity is not the only tool set for astrophysics. It is useful but has deficiencies that are readily apparent. For instance most of what is dealt with in astrophysics has our information transmitted to us at non-Newtonian speeds. Light after all interplays with the universe according to the General Theory of Relativity which is Einsteinian Gravity. Black holes are massive entities whose existence would not be well mapped out by only Newtonian models. Plenty of mysteries out there to unwrap and understand.

Government should be transparent and accountable. This policy is quite the opposite. On an Enlightenment Scale it gets 1 out of ten Voltaires, which for the Fundamentalist Godstick converts to 3 Taliban, a couple of Waco conspiracy theorists and a Hillsong revival group.