Zach is correct. Newtonian mechanics perfectly describes what happens to the pencil when you drop it. Relativistic and quantum effects can’t even be detected except for things that are either very small, very large, or very fast. And if you can’t detect it, science isn’t interested in it. That is a big difference between science and philosophy: Science is dependent ONLY on things that are detectible through observation or experiment. That is one reason why there will never be a real conflict between science and Torah; science has nothing to say about the nature of the spiritual universe.
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