$250,000.00 REWARD

It is interesting in talking with an Atheist, when you bring up the question, “Well, where did the all the matter/energy come from to form this primordial egg that exploded in a “big bang”?”  There immediate answer is, “Where did God come from?”  The Theist (a belief in God…as opposed to Atheism), will answer that eternity by definition is not only in a “eternity future”….but “eternity past”.  This is in direct opposition to the basic scientific understanding of entropy that sees both a beginning and ending of all things. (Uniformitarianism). Second, as a scientist will admit, a belief in God regardless of the many assumptions of logic and evidence that point to a creator ultimately is an act of faith.  God by definition, both transient and immanent, (omnipresent), is outside of what we perceive as time, therefore God has no beginning or ending.  Where a scientist must base his belief on evidence (the scientific method of observation, recording and experimentation)… a Theist does not have that requirement.  Therefore the question to an Atheist of “Where did the matter/energy come from”? is quite appropriate and requires an answer based upon known scientific principals and empirical evidence.  But the question to a Theist of “Where did God come from”? not only does not require an answer but is based on an ignorance of basic theology and is merely a diversion, because science has no answers to this question of our universes initial advent.  Remember, the study of origins as presented by scientists (and in our public school textbooks) is more than a biological process.  It is presented as a process that:

1)      Brought time, space and matter into existence from nothing.

2)      Organized that matter into galaxies, stars, and at least 8 planets (Pluto and four other solar system bodies now being classified as “dwarf stars”) as well as other observed objects and phenomena.  This is referred to as cosmic evolution.

3)      Brought about life on at least one of the planets from nonliving matter. This is referred to chemical evolution.

4)      Caused the living creatures to be capable of an interested in reproducing themselves.

5)      Caused that first life form to spontaneously diversify by total random chance into different forms of living things, from simple one celled organisms into more complex forms such as plants and animals on earth today.  This is referred to as biological evolution.  Somehow this hypothesis must also account for thought, intelligence and creativity.

This is why a $250,000.00 reward is still ( since 1990) available to anyone that can prove evolution…ie: “that the universe came into being by itself by purely natural processes so that no appeal to the supernatural is needed.  This offer of $250,000.00 by Dr. Kent Hovind is to anyone who can give empirical evidence of evolution.  The inability to do so demonstrates that the hypothesis of evolution is nothing more that a religious belief.  (www.drdino.com)