From: James J. Lippard
To: All Oct-30-93 01:16PM
Subject: $10,000 offer
Organization: University of Arizona
From: lippard@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard)
Message-ID: <30OCT199314164088@violet.ccit.arizona.edu>
Newsgroups: talk.origins
"Dr." Kent Hovind (doctorate in education) travels around the country
lecturing to churches about the evils of evolution and how wonderful
young-earth creationism is. Ed Babinski recently sent me a videotape
of his appearance in South Carolina, and Hovind is, as far as I can tell,
the most ignorant creationist ever to give a public lecture. He gave
just about every bad argument I've come across for a young-earth: the
shrinking sun, the decay of the earth's magnetic field, moon dust,
etc. He claimed that Nebraska man was used as evidence for evolution
in the Scopes trial (false). He claimed that Piltdown man still appears
in textbooks today (but didn't name any). He claimed that Donald Johanson
found "Lucy"'s leg bones a mile and a half away from the rest of the
skeleton (false--and not even an accurate representation of the bogus
creationist claim, which is that "Lucy"'s *knee joint* was found at
another location). He gave the population growth argument for a young
earth.
But he also did this: he offered $10,000 to anyone who can produce any
evidence for evolution.
To claim your $10,000, send a piece of evidence (any evidence) for
evolution to:
Kent Hovind
29 Cummings Road
Pensacola, FL 32503
I've written to him asking for the exact conditions of his offer, but
what he said on the videotape is what I've just described above. He
didn't require proof, he didn't require conclusive evidence, he didn't
even require strong evidence. He just asked for "evidence for
evolution."
He also didn't say that there was only one award available; he said
that he would send $10,000 to *anyone* who could produce said evidence.
Jim Lippard Lippard@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
Dept. of Philosophy Lippard@ARIZVMS.BITNET
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
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On a more sickening note... does this remind anyone else of the
IHR's (Institute for Historical Revisionism) offer for anyone
who could show that the holocaust happened? I have noticed a
similarity in the logic between the ICR and the IHR but this is
rediculous (I know, Hovind isn't actually associated with the
ICR but still, the parallel is eery).
Scott, smullins@ecn.purdue.edu
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