seanbonner: $250,000 Intelligent Design Contest

August 19, 2005

$250,000 Intelligent Design Contest

Earlier Xeni posted that BoingBoing is willing to pay any individual *$250,000 if they can produce empirical evidence which proves that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I told her that was amazing and that I'd meet that as well. Apparently I wasn't the only one to make that offer and the pot is now up to *$750,000. If we can get someone else to offer up another *$250,000 that will be a cool million. This is some high stakes philosophizing.

* Prize to be awarded with Intelligently Designed currency; void where prohibited by logic.

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If you don't invite Flying Spaghetti Monster into your heart and become born again, then you will burn in hell-fire for all eternity. -- The Bible.

Posted by: Tyler Green on August 19, 2005 04:27 PM

I accept the challenge. It's going to be an Inspector Gadget weekend.

Posted by: justin on August 19, 2005 05:59 PM

I have decided to add another 250,000 USD to the Intelligent Design Contest prize money making it to a "cool million".

Now lets see who takes up the offer :)

Posted by: Angsuman Chakraborty on August 19, 2005 08:12 PM

Oh Crap. Bill and Melinda Gates are funding the Discovery Institute's efforts to push Intelligent Design.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/national/21evolve.html
see the second page -

Makes perfect sense. Gates used science and technology to make his billions. Now he's destroying science to kill all future competition.

Posted by: Bill Gusky on August 21, 2005 07:25 PM

I for one would have taken the "ho's 'n' blow" for a prize.

Posted by: Bill on August 22, 2005 07:02 PM