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This is their answer to a guy who is offering "a quarter of a million dollars to anyone who can give any empirical evidence for evolution."
I'm just guessing here, but the fossil record of increasing complexity of organisms as time has passed is somehow not empirical evidence.
tiggy, I'm so glad everyone is mostly okay but am sending continued health~ma for your aunt, and your poor sister. So glad it wasn't worse.
Gud, I suspect he wants video of something actually evolving, like on Star Trek.
I'm just guessing here, but the fossil record of increasing complexity of organisms as time has passed is somehow not empirical evidence.
An analysis of the challange: [link]
It's insane what the guy is asking for when he says "empirical evidence." eg: includes proof that God did not create the universe. Yeah, he's including all sorts of cosmology stuff in "evolution." Plus, you know, impossible to prove that God is not behind the creation of the universe, etc.
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* NOTE: When I use the word evolution, I am not referring to the minor variations found in all of the various life forms (microevolution). I am referring to the general theory of evolution which believes these five major events took place without God:
1. Time, space, and matter came into existence by themselves.
2. Planets and stars formed from space dust.
3. Matter created life by itself.
4. Early life-forms learned to reproduce themselves.
5. Major changes occurred between these diverse life forms (i.e., fish changed to amphibians, amphibians changed to reptiles, and reptiles changed to birds or mammals).
I'm just guessing here, but the fossil record of increasing complexity of organisms as time has passed is somehow not empirical evidence.
His criteria are a little more stringent. Or rather, his definition of "evolution" is whack.
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I suspect he wants video of something actually evolving
One could get really, "I'll show you mine if . . . " about that. I mean, I'm assuming the guy doesn't have God the Father Almighty, the Holy Spirit, or the ressurected Jesus Christ on DVD.
And no, The Passion does not count.
Happy Birthday Kalshane!
and to MonkeyPants!
Woof, tiggy, that's some house fire.
FWIW, the boyfriend of my college roommate was burned pretty badly our senior year, an electrical burn (he's a plumber), but similarly involving the face and hospitalization. He swole up like crazy at first, including around his eyes, but later the swelling did go down and he came out OK with no vision impairment. (He had only 1st and 2nd burns, and got away with only a couple of scars.)
So, soothing lotions, powerful painkillers, and lots and lots of nice white blood cells to your aunt.
I'm just guessing here, but the fossil record of increasing complexity of organisms as time has passed is somehow not empirical evidence.
Of course not. It's a trick by the devil, who is a very tricky geologist.
One could get really, "I'll show you mine if . . . " about that. I mean, I'm assuming the guy doesn't have God the Father Almighty, the Holy Spirit, or the ressurected Jesus Christ on DVD.
Yeah, which is what led BoingBoing to offer $ for proof that Jesus is not the Son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Spin Lists Rock's 'Incredible' Body Parts
At No. 2 is the liver of Rolling Stones' Keith Richards, which is so durable, Spitz writes, that "when Richards finally passes, they'll line the exterior of the space shuttle with his liver tissue."
snerk