If someone offered $250,000 for proof of evolution, empirical proof, that shows it is more than just a belief?

Question

How would you respond?
here is the website right here
http://www.drdino.com/articles.php?spec=67&kws=250,000

I'm trying to figure out a way so I can collect the money. That much money might not be worth the effort though. Can someone help me out with this. I'll split the reward. In fact, i only take $20,000 and you can have the rest. What say you?

Answer 1

Here's a hint: Anybody who uses the word "proof" rather than "evidence" :
(A) Doesn't understand science AT ALL; and
(B) Has absolutely no intention of actually hearing the evidence.
Why? Because the word "proof" means "something that will absolutely change *my* mind, and I won't change my mind, so therefore, ipso facto, there is NO 'proof'."

Kent Hovind's $250,000 "offer" is a well-known and totally empty, stunt ... the type of thing that illustrates the complete down-to-his-toes lack of integrity or shred of intellectual honesty that is Kent Hovind. Even other creationists ... like the people at Answers in Genesis and Answers In Creation ... can't stand him.

He doesn't even have enough money to pay his back taxes (which is why he is in jail for tax fraud), much less a quarter-million dollar prize in which he alone gets to pick the committee and the criterion on which it qualifies.

Or to put it another way ... there are tens of thousands of career scientists around the world who obviously think that evolution has sufficient empirical evidence that they consider it the backbone of everything they do in biology. To believe that they are all doing so without such empirical evidence ... and just because of some "belief" (?) ... is to call all scientists ... every single one of them that accepts evolution ... pretty much the entire scientific community ... either STUPID or CONSPIRING. Why would someone hate scientists that much?

Answer 2

Well, I think its a lost cause. The terms & conditions points to a site on which they do not exist. And he seems to get to decide what is proof (clearly because any real scientist accepts it is already proved).

The science on the site is total rubbish. A 12 year old could refute most of it if they had done well in class.

Maybe you could offer proof and then sue - let a court decide. He would have trouble with that, and would be bound to lose. You would be $250k better of minus legal fees.

Answer 3

Kent Hovind is a looney who currently resides in JAIL.

According to Wikipedia:

"Hovind has made controversial remarks regarding conspiracies, science, creation, equal rights, religion and government over the years. Hovind considers the King James Version of the Bible to be the inerrant word of God that must be taken literally. Because of this, he believes all findings of science will eventually be found to agree with Scripture — which he claims is a priori known to be true. He claims that evolutionists also have a priori assumptions, namely that God does not exist (or at least not one that performed special Creation), thereby distorting their own application of science.[104][105][106] Hovind maintains that biology textbooks are lying and advocates simply taking evolution out of the textbooks because he considers evolution to be a religion.[107] He has said, "I'm not trying to get evolution out of the textbooks, nor am I trying to get creationism into the textbooks. What I'm trying to do is get the lies out of the textbooks."[108]

Hovind has several conspiracy theories about the U.S. government. For example, he believes that the Laetrile actually works as a "cancer cure" and teaches that the US government is conspiring to suppress a cure for cancer.[22] On his radio program he claims that the U.S. government was behind the 9/11 attacks and that a "lot of folks were told not to come to work."[109] He also believes the Oklahoma City bombing was carried out by the government. "Did you know the Federal Government blew up their own building to blame it on the militias and to get rid of some people that weren't cooperating with the system?"[110] He also alleges that "UFOs are apparitions of Satan" and that the US government possesses UFOs.[110] Additionally, Hovind believes that the Federal Reserve, the Council on Foreign Relations, the United Nations, and various other groups are actively planning to create a one world government and that the 1993 World Trade Center attack was staged by the US Government in order to pass "anti-terrorism" legislation that restricts civil liberties. He says, "I love my country, but fear my government. And you should too."[111]

Hovind disregards all fossil evidence, claiming "no fossils can count as evidence for evolution," because "all we know about that animal is that it died," and we do not know that it "had any kids, much less different kids."[112] He also claims the Grand Canyon was not created through gradual geologic processes but rather by the Great Flood as narrated in the Old Testament.

During a debate with Farrell Till, Hovind made the following claim about Donald Johanson: "[He] found the leg bones of Lucy a mile and a half away from the head bones. The leg bones were 200 feet deeper in a deeper layer of strata. I would like to know how fast the train was going that hit that chimpanzee."[113] According to Donald Johanson, this is false, and although Hovind has been informed of this, he continues to make the claim.[114]"

Answer 4

You can't. Plenty of people have applied, but they guy appoints an 'objective' committee (of his choosing) to evaluate your 'evidence'. None of his 'experts' are really qualified to judge this evidence (he lists - a zoologist, a geologist, an aerospace engineer, a professor of radiology and biophysics, and an expert in radio metric dating). No evolutionary biologists. Not astrophysicists. You can tell by his statements that they already believe as he does. This is not an objective committee.

Not too mention this guy is in jail on tax fraud, and has provided no evidence taht the money exists at all (unlike Randi's million dollar offer http://www.randi.org).

Go here for more info on why it's not worh applying for.

http://www.kent-hovind.com/

Answer 5

Current studies of molecular genetics offer the ultimate forensic proof of evolution.

Unfortunately Dr Dino is a fraud; you would stand a better chance making money by playing the state lottery.

Answer 6

Science can't prove anything. It can only disprove by repeated hypothesizing and testing.

Evolution is highly corroborated. We have a lot of evidence to show that it was and is an active process that stems from repeated DNA mutations that are passed from generation to generation. But we can't "prove" it. Nobody can. We can't "prove" gravity. We can only test these things over and over to look for falsification.

Answer 7

It is a fraud. He will never accept any proof that you can give him.

Answer 8

Sorry buddy.. I dont think theres any way possible to Prove evolution.. Unless you fake it.. Like all those half man half monkeys that people made up.