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Creationist offering $7.5 trillion if you prove evolution

newscientist.com — Palaeontologists: this could be your lucky day. Turkish creationist Adnan Oktar has just offered ten trillion lira - a mouth-watering $7.5 trillion - to "anyone who produces a single intermediate-form fossil demonstrating evolution".

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  • ldailey06, on 10/10/2008, -28/+793http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiktaalik

    MONEY PLEASE.
  • Nekura20x6, on 10/10/2008, -27/+716I'll give him twice that if he can prove Creationism.
  • nmezib, on 10/10/2008, -20/+395I will offer anyone $7.5 Trillion if they could DISPROVE the existence of a flying spaghetti monster.

    May his noodly appendages continue to bless America.
  • Pissoff, on 10/10/2008, -35/+403Should be a lot easier to prove evolution than to prove spaghetti monster.
  • Hetman, on 10/10/2008, -20/+280Every species is an intermediate-form fossil. Anyways this is just creationist propoganda. It will allow creationists to be like "See they could not provide evidence evoltuion is a lie etc." Even though regardless of the amount of evidence you provide for them they will just dismiss it or claim that it does not prove it. It is just a waste of time and free propoganda and plublcity for their cause.
  • evilcaptain, on 10/10/2008, -21/+225Your dad is the transitional form between your granddad and you ;)
  • ironeus, on 10/10/2008, -20/+195 e^{int p dx}. frac{dy}{dx} + e^{int p dx}.p:y = Q:e^{int p dx} ; any partial credit?
  • phillipj06, on 10/10/2008, -13/+184EDUCATION MOTHER******! DO YOU HAVE IT?!
  • MillionsLivio, on 10/10/2008, -1/+171I speak on behalf of Prince Ikari of Nigeria, we will transfer the money to your account but first we need to verify your identity. Please supply your name, address, social security and pin number. Thanks you.
  • diggit83, on 10/10/2008, -7/+162Lol, contest over....guess they dont have Wikipedia access in Turkey lol
  • inactive, on 10/10/2008, -17/+162I have a question. Why did god make an animal that 99% identical to humans? Was he practicing? Why does a supreme being need to practice?

    I rest my case.

    Oh and we have 50% of the same genes as a banana.

    The defense rests.

    Oh and we have 30% of the same DNA as a mosquito...

    Taaaa Daaaaaa!!!

    There are nylon eating bacteria...how did god make a bacteria to eat something that never existed before 50 years ago. Did Noah have these bacteria on the ark????

    Here endeth the lesson.

    In fact, evolution is the normal function of life on this planet, its the Mt. Everest of ignorance to deny it. It would be far more likely god created us if we did not evolve, if nothing ever changed, but we can see it with our own eyes.
  • kingofkolt, on 10/10/2008, -4/+143RAmen.
  • scfraser6, on 10/10/2008, -3/+129Bush Proves Evolution......Saves America from Bankruptcy!!!!
  • bc289, on 10/10/2008, -3/+123How is it possible that anyone could have $7.5 trillion dollars? Wouldn't that make him the richest man in the world, by a longshot? Last I checked Warren Buffett was the richest, and he had something around $60 billion.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2008, -3/+111On it's way... just need your PIN ;)
  • DanteDefiance, on 10/10/2008, -5/+111Can I request you donate some of those funds to America? We're....we're kinda in a ***** hole right now.
  • Seidoger, on 10/10/2008, -6/+107Something tells me that they will never be satisfied with ANY proof..
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  • therealkdog, on 10/10/2008, -7/+94Whats the catch? Oh you have to make him believe it... well that will never happen.
  • JetKrosswind, on 10/10/2008, -1/+84Your calculus is weak old man!
  • Metasquares, on 10/10/2008, -8/+89This is an archetypal example of what a crank does. No one will ever see this money because he won't consider any proof presented sufficient. I'm not sure why this ended up on Digg; it's probably best not to encourage him.

    Also, how does this guy have that sort of money to give away in the first place? You can buy countries with that sort of money.
  • Hetman, on 10/10/2008, -7/+81This whole evolution argument will pass. In a hundred years 99% of religions will just drop the entire argument, just as they stopped claiming the earth was the center of the universe. It is just best to ignore them. to miss quote Eliot's poem. This is the way the religion ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.
  • azhura, on 10/10/2008, -11/+81*Stewie beating Brian to a pulp*

    "WHERE'S MY MONEY?! WHERE'S MY MONEY BITCH?!"
  • robystar, on 10/10/2008, -2/+68Now we must wait for fossilization...*taps fingers on desk*
  • ScienceMatters, on 10/10/2008, -4/+68Why? Cause he's the missing link?
  • MajinAku, on 10/10/2008, -0/+64Oh Admiral Ackbar. Is there nothing you can't forsee? Trap related at least...
  • scfraser6, on 10/10/2008, -7/+70maybe Bush will take a stab at it to save this fundamentally strong economy of ours....
  • Induane, on 10/10/2008, -12/+74Wow how can you use so few words and display such stupidity?
  • 1jaxstate1, on 10/10/2008, -21/+82I'm here, and that's proof enough. Please put the money to my account 989-48-5126!
  • Coffeedemon, on 10/10/2008, -4/+63I'd say he'll have just as difficult a time proving the existance of all that money.
  • Someguy101, on 02/19/2009, -1/+59Here it is.

    http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/pin.htm
  • inactive, on 10/10/2008, -2/+59someone did a math, someone followed with a pop-culture quote from a Tarantino, massive pretension/fail followed.
  • apena89, on 10/10/2008, -9/+64how is babby formed?
  • sirjimithy, on 10/10/2008, -1/+53I'm here because my parents had sex.
  • wookee88, on 10/10/2008, -1/+51exactly, they'll simply use this as a "prove" that evolution isn't true by saying things like "we have astanding offer of $7.5 trillion yet no scientist can provide sufficient evidence to prove evolution"....
  • jaymzdean, on 10/10/2008, -8/+53I highly doubt he's got a penny more than 7 trillion.
    Tacking that imaginary .5 at the end just makes the offer border on ridiculous.
  • Someguy101, on 02/19/2009, -0/+43Admiral Ackbar is feeling a little more verbose than usual today.
  • lulzitsadigg, on 10/10/2008, -10/+52THAT'S OVER 9000
  • counterplex, on 10/10/2008, -1/+43But I'm not dead yet!
  • FutureGuy, on 10/10/2008, -1/+42I don't know where he is going to come up with 7.5 trillion, thats way more than Turkey's GDP.
  • hark, on 10/10/2008, -0/+40JUST LOOK AT THE BANANA!
  • xaeon, on 10/10/2008, -1/+41...you missed the proving creationism bit.
  • noen, on 10/10/2008, -7/+46Well asskicker, you CAN, that doesn't mean you SHOULD.
  • dampeal, on 10/10/2008, -20/+58I'll double it if you can prove Creationism...
  • SQLserver, on 10/10/2008, -2/+40Exactly: A theory is something much, much more, and much, much more supported with empirical evidence then a stupid fact.
  • nlasorsa, on 10/10/2008, -10/+47I offer one thousand trillion million and five dollars to anyone who can prove the existence of god.
  • pintomp3, on 10/10/2008, -8/+45http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/

    i take paypal.
  • steelaz, on 10/10/2008, -0/+35If you'll type your PIN I will see **** instead
  • xGeneric, on 10/10/2008, -2/+37Hmmm... an impossible amount of money for something that's already been proven? Coming from a Creationist, this does not surprise me.

    Can we please cut this crap out? If you want to argue God created life, that's a good argument... Did God create the chemicals that made life possible? Did God set off the Big Bang? Now those are some compelling arguments. But as for whether or not Evolution occurs or not, it's just ridiculous to argue against it.
  • Braxo, on 10/10/2008, -3/+36Can't we just look at viruses and watch how they mutate to thwart different medicines? Isn't that evolution at a very fast scale?

    Or did Jesus give that power to the viruses in the beginning and that's how it was all planned anyways?
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