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Creationist stakes $10,000 on contest between Bible and evolution
The Guardian ^ | March 25, 2013 | Amanda Holpuch

Posted on 03/27/2013 11:15:00 AM PDT by EveningStar

A California creationist is offering a $10,000 challenge to anyone who can prove in front of a judge that science contradicts the literal interpretation of the book of Genesis.

Dr Joseph Mastropaolo, who says he has set up the contest, the Literal Genesis Trial ...

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: creation; creationism; evolution; josephmastropaolo; literalgenesistrial; religion; science; stars; verminman
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1 posted on 03/27/2013 11:15:00 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

You can’t prove a negative.

I would much rather see an offer for a scientist to “Prove” materialism/naturalism/reductionism is the only basis for understanding the world around us.


2 posted on 03/27/2013 11:23:42 AM PDT by Zeneta (No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
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To: EveningStar
Notwithstanding the fact that evolution is a bunch of BS, this guy will lose. For one thing, if Adam and Eve or anybody descended from them had ever seen a Neanderthal, Genesis would say something about it:


image courtesy www.themandus.org

Cro Magnons had killed out the Neanderthal prior to the arrival of Adam and Eve.

3 posted on 03/27/2013 11:23:43 AM PDT by varmintman
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To: EveningStar
He can't pay, won't pay, and will never accept defeat.

This is nothing more than someone saying 'Look at Meeeeee!', but the left wing UK Guardian believes this is 'news'.

4 posted on 03/27/2013 11:24:17 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid (Demand Common Sense Nut Control.)
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To: varmintman

There was nothing prior to the arrival of Adam, not even a universe.


5 posted on 03/27/2013 11:25:34 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: EveningStar
A California creationist is offering a $10,000 challenge to anyone who can prove in front of a judge that science contradicts the literal interpretation of the book of Genesis.

Presenting evidence that the Earth is older than 6,000 years should win it I would think.

6 posted on 03/27/2013 11:26:28 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: EveningStar
Well not just evolution then, there is also geology, astronomy and physics. But no problem - creationists tend to call all those disciplines “evolution” anyway - just as soon as their findings contradict their theologically derived timeline.
7 posted on 03/27/2013 11:27:29 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: The KG9 Kid

He will never have to pay anything.

Most of what gets called “science” WRT creation, is just psuedointellectual psycho-masturbation. There is no science there. It’s all media circus.


8 posted on 03/27/2013 11:28:56 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: EveningStar

Who’s the judge?


9 posted on 03/27/2013 11:29:51 AM PDT by PapaNew
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To: DoodleDawg

>> “Presenting evidence that the Earth is older than 6,000 years should win it I would think.” <<

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If there were any, but that’s the hitch; its all imagination.


10 posted on 03/27/2013 11:30:42 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: DoodleDawg
Presenting evidence that the Earth is older than 6,000 years should win it I would think.

Magnetic striping of the oceans, and the lengthier ice cores should do it.

11 posted on 03/27/2013 11:31:28 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: The KG9 Kid
This is not a product of the leftist media. This is being covered elsewhere too.
12 posted on 03/27/2013 11:31:28 AM PDT by EveningStar ("What color is the sky in your world?" -- Frasier Crane)
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To: EveningStar
the literal interpretation of the book of Genesis

First you have to get by the myriads of literal interpretations of the Book of Genesis. A judge can't do that.

13 posted on 03/27/2013 11:32:08 AM PDT by PapaNew
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To: EveningStar

This is no more worthy of being ‘news’ than Mad Dog McCree offering a $10,000 prize to any challenger who can drink him under the table next Friday night at the Bucket O’ Blood Saloon in Deadwood, SD.


14 posted on 03/27/2013 11:35:08 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid (Demand Common Sense Nut Control.)
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To: editor-surveyor

Good grief - there are trees that old.


15 posted on 03/27/2013 11:35:45 AM PDT by stormer
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To: EveningStar
A California creationist is offering a $10,000 challenge to anyone who can prove in front of a judge that science contradicts the literal interpretation of the book of Genesis.

IMHO, Genesis 1 isn't about the origins of life on earth. It's a prologue or introduction to the story, meant to teach the interpretation of a pattern of Hebrew verbs in repeated cycles found throughout the rest of the Bible. It is the foundation for understanding the redemptive pattern set out as an example from Genesis 2:5 through Genesis 8. Even the first word, "bereshit," does not mean "in THE beginning," as there is no definite article in the Hebrew.

16 posted on 03/27/2013 11:36:32 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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To: editor-surveyor

“imagination”, maybe,

but more accurately, interpreting the evidence by assuming what you’re trying to prove.


17 posted on 03/27/2013 11:36:36 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: editor-surveyor
If there were any, but that’s the hitch; its all imagination.

There are at least 30 well documented different ways demonstrating it's obvious the Earth is older than 6,000 years.

Perhaps the simplest are the yearly ice layers in Antartica and Greenland - the Earth is at LEAST 160,000 years old based on that.

I find it interesting that knowledgeable people going out and actually drilling these ice cores is "imagination" and a document of unknown authorship that is 2,600 years old is no.

18 posted on 03/27/2013 11:39:58 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: EveningStar

Much simpler and much more profound would be to conceive a “trial” where not allowing creation to be taught is attacked by presenting as much evidence as allowed of intelligent design (intelligent deign is literally everywhere) to prove creation.


19 posted on 03/27/2013 11:40:07 AM PDT by PapaNew
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To: EveningStar

Start with Augustine


20 posted on 03/27/2013 11:42:27 AM PDT by Shark24
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