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From: b.schafer@ed.ac.uk (Burkhard)
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Subject: Re: THE $10 MILLION PRIZE FOR PROOF EVOLUTION 2.0
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John Harshman wrote:

> On 3/19/24 1:54 PM, Richmond wrote:
>> DB Cates <cates_db@hotmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> On 2024-03-19 3:28 PM, John Harshman wrote:
>>>> On 3/19/24 11:42 AM, Ernest Major wrote:
>>>>> On 19/03/2024 17:42, John Harshman wrote:
>>>>>> On 3/19/24 10:01 AM, Ron Dean wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> THIS IS A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME WEALTHY. A $10,000.000 PRIZE.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> IF EVOLUTION IS A REALITY OF NATURE.  THERE IS NO REASON FOR
>>>>>>> SOMEONE _NOT_ TO WIN THIS PRIZE.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> EVOLUTION 2.0 PRIZE KEY FACTS:
>>>>>>> Evolution 2.0 is a $10 million technology prize backed by a
>>>>>>> private equity investment group formed to identify a naturally
>>>>>>> occurring code.
>>>>>>> The Prize came about from the group’s inaugural meeting May 31,
>>>>>>> 2019, at The Royal Society of Great Britain.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The judges are:
>>>>>>> George Church. Denis Noble, Michael Ruse
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://evo2.org/theprize/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> How would you recognize a naturally occurring code? And why isn't
>>>>>> the genetic code an example therof?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The prize isn't for identifying a naturally occurring code. It's
>>>>> for causing one to spontaneously form.
>>>>>
>>>> But if you cause it, it isn't spontaneous.
>>>>
>>> There you go. *Proof* that i"m just one of John's innumerable sock puppets.
>> 
>> Is there anything which has no cause?
>> 
> James Dean?

There are other things that used to have
a cause, but not any longer - cf "Lost cause"