I wasn't criticizing your taste in turn of phrase, nor was I particularly disagreeing with that commenter in general. It is possible that reading other entries on the blog would give a different impression about his thoughts as a whole, but that doesn't alter the impression given by that entry, taken alone.

The observable fact in my experience is that things which are not touching other things end up touching them at a rate which is proportional to the distance away from things that they are, with many exceptions. What causes that is definitely not anything I can observe. All I really know is that the Einsteinian theory of gravity appears to a better representation of that than anything I can come up with.