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Cro Magnons had killed out the Neanderthal prior to the arrival of Adam and Eve.
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 ...
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.
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Cro Magnons had killed out the Neanderthal prior to the arrival of Adam and Eve.
This is nothing more than someone saying 'Look at Meeeeee!', but the left wing UK Guardian believes this is 'news'.
There was nothing prior to the arrival of Adam, not even a universe.
Presenting evidence that the Earth is older than 6,000 years should win it I would think.
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.
Who’s the judge?
>> “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.
Magnetic striping of the oceans, and the lengthier ice cores should do it.
First you have to get by the myriads of literal interpretations of the Book of Genesis. A judge can't do that.
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.
Good grief - there are trees that old.
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.
“imagination”, maybe,
but more accurately, interpreting the evidence by assuming what you’re trying to prove.
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.
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.
Start with Augustine
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