Not So Polite Dinner Conversation – a typical christian fraud

It’s always fun to see how christians choose to lie. This one is a relatively old lie, where Christians have supposedly offered a $10 million dollar prize for coming up with abiogenesis.

Unsurprisngly, they think they are ever so clever with this, and of course they try to trumpet how no one has ever gotten it. Poor Mark, over at HillFaith (aka HillFraud) has to try this poor argument.

““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. (here’s a link to the fraudulent contest)

“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.”” – Dan Witt, creationist and complete fraud. He works with the Discovery Institute, a notable fraud in creationism.

then he goes on “So one might argue that, maybe, just maybe, it isn’t reasonable to give free authority to the theories that have produced no results, merely because they are “science.” And yet that does seem to be the unstated logic underlying much of the origin-of-life and evolution debates: planes fly; therefore evolution is true. Rockets reach the moon; therefore life was spontaneously generated from non-life. 

In reality, of course, “science” is just a word, a label you can slap on a lot of very different methods and ideas. The hypothesis of abiogenesis may turn out to be the kind of “science” that cures diseases, makes planes fly, and puts rockets on the moon. Or it may turn out to be a “science” more in the family of phrenology and phlogiston. 

Time will tell. But the longer that ten million dollars sits there untouched — and the longer origin-of-life theories fail to revolutionize the world — the likelier the second option will seem. “

aw, nice to see complete lies from a christian. It’s like they don’t actually think their god exists and hates lies and liars. Curious how no one makes that argument that poor Dan assigns to “science”.

Yep, it’s just a long winded god of the gaps fallacy. It’s rather sweet of them to show how they have no evidence for their god *and* have to resort to fail like this.

What’s notable is that it is no challenge to guess that if humans do figure out abiogenesis, these frauds will simply move the goalposts and never make good on their supposed prize since they will simply claim that humans didn’t make the elements that go into abiogenesis. This what all frauds do.