Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
March 26, 2013 at 4:12 pm
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March 26, 2013 at 4:15 pm
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2013 at 4:16 pm by frankiej.)
Hmm, seems like an easy 10 grand profit...
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March 26, 2013 at 4:18 pm
I liked this.
Quote:Mastropaolo believes that evolution cannot be proved scientifically. "It turns out that there is nothing in the universe [that] is evolving, everything is devolving, everything is going in the opposite direction," he said. He thinks that evolution has a direction! He obviously has no knowledge of he theory at all. Should be an easy win for someone. You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid. Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.  RE: Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
March 26, 2013 at 4:30 pm
I'd like to see the ground rules for this. It smacks too much of Hovind's $250,000 challenge, in which he gets to define what evolution means, what evidence is allowable and with a dubiously vague mention of an "impartial" committee of his own choosing. Not to mention the Dawkins Caveat of giving creationism undeserved reflected credibility on a shared platform.
For me, though, this is the best bit: Quote:"The evolutionists thereafter could read that transcript and make their case a bit stronger on the next one they contend against and we can do the same," Mastropaolo said. "We can read the transcript and not have have to go through the same process over and over and over again without any let up, without any resolution." In a word: evolution.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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March 26, 2013 at 4:32 pm
(March 26, 2013 at 4:30 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I'd like to see the ground rules for this. I know that he's asking his opponent to put up $10,000 as well. They could host it on TruTV for all the good it will do in "settling" the issue in the mind of a guy who thinks "everything is devolving."
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould  RE: Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
March 26, 2013 at 4:37 pm
Quote:"They [evolutionists] are not stupid people, they are bright, but they are bright enough to know there is no scientific evidence they can give in a minitrial," Mastropaolo said. But apparently this jesus freak asshole is not bright enough to know that there is NO scientific evidence he can produce to support his fairy tale. Interesting. I guess there really is nothing quite as stupid as a creationist.  RE: Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
March 26, 2013 at 4:42 pm
(March 26, 2013 at 4:37 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Interesting. I guess there really is nothing quite as stupid as a creationist. Creationism is certainly idiotic; and yet this guy has a PhD, so he has some amount of brain power. Just goes to show how powerful the religion mind virus is in controlling its slaves. RE: Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
March 26, 2013 at 4:46 pm
His PhD is in kinesiology, but that's presumably enough to impress the willingly gullible.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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March 26, 2013 at 5:13 pm
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
![[Image: harmlesskitchen.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/yxR97P23/harmlesskitchen.png) I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.  RE: Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
March 26, 2013 at 5:36 pm
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