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05-05-2006, 03:52 PM
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$250,000 reward for proving evolution
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Formerly $10,000 offered since 1990 I have a standing offer of $250,000 to anyone who can give any empirical evidence (scientific proof) for evolution.* My $250,000 offer demonstrates that the hypothesis of evolution is nothing more than a religious belief. [/ QUOTE ] http://www.drdino.com/articles.php?spec=67 
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#3
05-05-2006, 04:06 PM
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Re: $250,000 reward for proving evolution
Ugh...how can anyone take this guy seriously?
"How did marsupials get to Australia? Noah was charged with building the vessel to safeguard certain animals during this massive and complex worldwide disaster; not with distributing them afterwards. Once Noah released the animals on Mount Ararat, natural instincts and climatic conditions determined how the redistribution of the animal population took place."
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#7
05-05-2006, 04:20 PM
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Re: $250,000 reward for proving evolution
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Prove beyond reasonable doubt* that the process of evolution (option 3 above, under "known options") is the only possible way the observed phenomena could have come into existence. Only empirical evidence is acceptable.** Persons wishing to collect the $250,000 may submit their evidence in writing or schedule time for a public presentation. A committee of trained scientists will provide peer review of the evidence offered and, to the best of their ability, will be fair and honest in their evaluation and judgment as to the validity of the evidence presented. If you are convinced that evolution is an indisputable fact, may I suggest that you offer $250,000 for any empirical or historical evidence against the general theory of evolution. This might include the following: The earth is not billions of years old (thus destroying the possibility of evolution having happened as it is being taught). No animal has ever been observed changing into any fundamentally different kind of animal. No one has ever observed life spontaneously arising from nonliving matter. Matter cannot make itself out of nothing. [/ QUOTE ] * "Beyond reasonable doubt" means beyond Kent Hovind's doubt which he, who is creating this challenge, assumes to be reasonable. There are no judges, so basically all this means is that you have to convince the challenger of something. So basically the challenge is to convince someone who has no incentive to be convinced (and in fact a very strong incentive NOT to be convinced) of something, which is impossible. ** "Only empirical evidence will do" is a way of making the challenge unbeatable, because evolution is a synthesis of empirical evidence. He is asking at what point a species arose from a different species, despite the fact that speciation takes more than one generation. The necessary synthesis of empirical evidence to factually derive that (which has been done) is not the empirical evidence itself. As such, he has invalidated the scientific method as a means of convincing him of evolution's existence for the purposes of the challenge. The only way to meet the challenge is to prove to him that evolution is directly, empirically observable. You'd have to show him a dog being born from a cat, and hope that he didn't find a way not to be convinced (which, considering he doesn't want to lose a quarter mill and considering the OTHER things he believes, shouldn't be hard to do). I hereby offer $250,000 to anyone who can convince me beyond reasonable doubt, using only empirical evidence, that Keynesian economics works. (See? It's impossible)
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#8
05-05-2006, 04:28 PM
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Re: $250,000 reward for proving evolution
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[ QUOTE ] I'll give him $100 billion if he can prove creation. [/ QUOTE ] I'll give him $100 billion, plus my soul. [/ QUOTE ] bible -> bible bible-> creation qed
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#9
05-05-2006, 04:31 PM
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Re: $250,000 reward for proving evolution
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I'll give him $100 billion if he can prove creation. [/ QUOTE ] I'll give him $100 billion, plus my soul. [/ QUOTE ] bible -> bible bible-> creation qed [/ QUOTE ] wow. Is that going to be a lump sum or monthly payments?
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#10
05-05-2006, 04:34 PM
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Re: $250,000 reward for proving evolution
I realize that it's not physics, and I don't typically have as much contempt for evolution critics as some others here, but I do have to say that this one does earn an immediate 10 points on Baez's crackpot index (number 13).
"10 points for offering prize money to anyone who proves and/or finds any flaws in your theory." http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
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