GOOD QUESTION: How Much Longer Will This $10 Million Prize Lay There Waiting for a Winner?
(THREE-MINUTE READ) — What would you do if you knew there was a cool $10 million prize available that anybody can win if they can do something evolutionists have assumed happened billions of years ago all by itself?
That something would be the process known as “abiogenesis,” which the folks at Britannica define as “the idea that life arose from non-life more than 3.5 billion years ago on Earth. Abiogenesis proposes that the first life-forms generated were very simple and through a gradual process became increasingly complex.
“Biogenesis, in which life is derived from the reproduction of other life, was presumably preceded by abiogenesis, which became impossible once Earth’s atmosphere assumed its present composition.”
So why is there $10 million just waiting for somebody to win? Daniel Witt of Evolution News & Science Today points to precisely such a cash prize that’s gone unclaimed since 2019. Witt explains:
“When you get deep in the weeds of any theoretical debate, you sometimes seem to float off into an abstract world where any position can seem plausible or implausible depending on your prior commitments. And the debate can go on forever, because there is no impartial umpire to say which arguments really hold water and which don’t.
“So it can be useful, sometimes, to take a step back and look around for an outside rubric to measure the success or failure of a theory.
“For that reason, I’m grateful to ‘Evolution 2.0’ founder Perry Marshall for helpfully providing one such measure for the origin-of-life debate: money. You can talk all day, but if there’s money on the table, you see what really works and what is just talk.
“And since 2019, a $10 million prize has been waiting for anyone who can discover ‘a purely chemical process that will generate, transmit and receive a simple code’ without any information snuck in from an intelligent designer. It’s not enough to come up with a theoretical model — it has to actually work.”
There’s much more to this highly instructive and potentially monumentally important saga, so go here on EN for the rest of Witt’s report.
“And since the 87th Olympiad, a 10 million drachma prize has been waiting for anyone who can discover ‘a purely natural process that will generate rain’ without any intervention by Zeus. And remember, it’s not enough to come up with a theoretical model — it has to actually work.” – snickered the worshipers of Zeus to the early Greek non-supernaturalists, knowing that these anti-polytheists couldn’t make rain, thereby proving Zeus – not nature – made the rain!
Well done, Brian. But are you missing the point of the modern prize offer?