God Squad: An apology to my high school physics teacher

Thanks for the enthusiastic responses to my column on how to fit miracles into a faith that does not require ignorance of science ("How do we reconcile nature and miracles?," May 29).

Errata (or oops!)

One anonymous reader slammed me pretty hard: "Did you never take physics in school? Your writing of the Earth  'If it stopped spinning it would explode' made a dunce of you — and has a tendency to undercut the value of anything else you write. Try a brief Google visit to 'gravity,' where you will learn that gravity is caused by mass, and not the kind Father Tom celebrated. The moon neither spins nor explodes."

Hey, now you know. I am a very good rabbi, but a very bad physicist.