Seriously, The Laws Underlying The Physics of Everyday Life Really Are Completely Understood

While the primary purpose of last week's post on the laws of physics underlying everyday life was to convey information like a good blog post should, there was another agenda as well: to test the waters. This is an issue I've been thinking about a lot lately, but I wanted to get a better idea for how it's perceived in the outside world. I honestly wasn't sure whether there would be more of "you arrogant physicist, we don't have any idea what the laws are" or "you moron, why are you wasting our time with this self-evident crap?" So much for that ambiguity. Responses, for example at Fark and Reddit but even here in our very own comment section, displayed a greater than average internetitude, defined as a tendency to not read the article, set up straw men, and miss the point. But at least the direction of disagreement was fairly uniform. The issue under discussion is important, so it's worth taking the time to counter the three most common arguments, from completely silly to almost-sensible.