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Creationist Adnan Oktar offers trillion-pound prize for fossil proof of evolution
Telegraph ^ | 9/29/08 | Chris Irvine

Posted on 10/02/2008 5:18:59 PM PDT by LibWhacker

Adnan Oktar, a creationist and rival of Richard Dawkins, has offered trillions of pounds to any scientists who can show proof of evolution.

Mr Oktar, 52, who successfully campaigned for Mr Dawkins' official website to be banned in Turkey, has said he will give 10 trillion Turkish lira, roughly equal to £4.4trn "to anyone who produces a single intermediate-form fossil demonstrating evolution."

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


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: challenge; creationist; evolution; piltdownman; trillion
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Bah, peanuts. There's no way I'll do it for less than 39 quadrillion pounds.
1 posted on 10/02/2008 5:19:03 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

Show me the money first?

Let’s see what’s in the middle of that wad.


2 posted on 10/02/2008 5:23:04 PM PDT by prolifefirst
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To: LibWhacker
All we have to do is to send him Keith Olbermann...


3 posted on 10/02/2008 5:23:26 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: LibWhacker

Way to Go, ADNAN!!! There is NO MISSING LINK. ....or LINKS.


4 posted on 10/02/2008 5:23:46 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: LibWhacker

5 posted on 10/02/2008 5:24:54 PM PDT by allmendream (Sa-RAH! Sa-RAH! Sa-RAH! RAH RAH RAH! McCain/Palin2008)
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To: LibWhacker

Just for fun, let me say that it’s a wacked out approach to science to disallow a theory because your literal interpretation of your religious book seems to prohibit it.


6 posted on 10/02/2008 5:25:12 PM PDT by prolifefirst
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To: darkwing104

Olbermann? Devolution, not evolution.


7 posted on 10/02/2008 5:25:17 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: LibWhacker

8 posted on 10/02/2008 5:26:10 PM PDT by allmendream (Sa-RAH! Sa-RAH! Sa-RAH! RAH RAH RAH! McCain/Palin2008)
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To: prolifefirst

Over my dead body!

You see that’s what we call in law a counter offer.


9 posted on 10/02/2008 5:26:41 PM PDT by prolifefirst
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To: prolifefirst
(To your neighborhood Neanderthal):

Oh. Yeah. You blend!

10 posted on 10/02/2008 5:29:33 PM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent.)
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To: LibWhacker
anyone who produces a single intermediate-form fossil demonstrating evolution

Frankly, I'd be at a loss to determine exactly what fossil doesn't meet that definition. Or perhaps he wants a chicken with teeth or some such??

11 posted on 10/02/2008 5:30:43 PM PDT by JimSEA (just another liberal-bashing fearmonger)
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Frankly, I'd be at a loss to determine exactly what fossil doesn't meet that definition. Or perhaps he wants a chicken with teeth or some such??

We can do that and have done it. Chickens still have genes for teeth.

12 posted on 10/02/2008 5:32:55 PM PDT by js1138
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To: allmendream

Better than this traditional exhibit of various human skulls from various locations and times are the limestone/shale fossil formations in England (I have long ago forgotten their names).

We learned about them in “stratigraphy” and “paleontology” in the 60’s.

They show, in a large vertical/layered series of formations, how an ammonoid (a shelled creature similar to our chambered Nautilus of today) evolved over millions of years in the same region.

Also, I found fossils near the old Capital Center in Largo, Md. where a Cretaceous formation was underlying a Paleocene (60-65 Million) formation. In the Cretaceous formation there was one species of shark with a tooth shape I had never seen before, plus turtle, fish, Mosasaur, crocodile, and ammonoid fossils (shells, teeth, vertebrae, bones etc.

Oh, did I leave out the fact that my daughter found a dinosaur toe-bone, too, all in the same cretaceous formation (confirmed by the Smithsonian Institution). It all changed during the Eocene period when all we had was about 5 different species of shark, Ostrea (oyster shells), some clam shells (Cullculae Gigantis), and worm tubes.

yes, I’ll take my reward in US dollars and some gold


13 posted on 10/02/2008 5:33:07 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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14 posted on 10/02/2008 5:33:27 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Ann Archy

There are plenty.


15 posted on 10/02/2008 5:33:49 PM PDT by Buck W. (If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
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16 posted on 10/02/2008 5:39:34 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: Buck W.

SHOW ME THE PROCESS....step by step, baby ....you can’t becaue the EVOLUTION can’t hopscotch....it has to be VERY PRECISE......


17 posted on 10/02/2008 5:40:11 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: LibWhacker
Adnan Oktar, a creationist and rival of Richard Dawkins, has offered trillions of pounds to any scientists who can show proof of evolution.

You're on.

Alan Colmes

18 posted on 10/02/2008 5:52:47 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin "The Iron Lady from the North")
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To: allmendream

Are you pretending that one of these specimens is THE “missing link” between two others?


19 posted on 10/02/2008 5:57:25 PM PDT by G Larry ("Disgust" is a valid expression!-Vote Family Values!)
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To: G Larry

Its not missing.

The links are all there.

And they confirm the evidence we see in DNA.


20 posted on 10/02/2008 6:03:44 PM PDT by allmendream (Sa-RAH! Sa-RAH! Sa-RAH! RAH RAH RAH! McCain/Palin2008)
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