> From the article:
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> Spectrum/Bill Siedler

> In Pastor Ron Hamman's nearly unintelligible creationist rant
(Spectrum, 1/21),
> he says he wants the Valley to host a creationism vs. evolution
debate because
> it would "really put the Valley on the map!"

> He then makes the claim that evolution cannot properly be called a
scientific
> "theory" like gravity or thermodynamics. Lastly, he says that in 1990
somebody
> issued a $10,000 challenge to anyone who could show scientific proof
of
> evolution.

> The prize still sits in a bank, unclaimed, says Hamman, and has now
accumulated
> enough interest to be a $250,000 prize today. Allow me to respond:
First, the
> Valley is already on the "map," but sadly, it's mostly due to our
reputation as
> an enclave for believers of things that strain credulity, like the
Rev. Hamman.
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