http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 45289.htmlA controversial creationist who successfully campaigned for Richard Dawkins' official website to be banned in Turkey has offered a multitrillion-pound challenge to scientists.
Adnan Oktar said that he has "issued a call to all evolutionists" that he will give "10 trillion Turkish lira to anyone who produces a single intermediate-form fossil demonstrating evolution" a sum roughly equal to GBP 4.4trn.
The Muslim writer, who uses the pen name Harun Yahya, is a fierce critic of what he calls "the Darwinist dictatorship" and a popular figure in his home country, where according to a 2006 survey only a quarter of the population believe in Darwin's theory.
