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Requesting clarification of the following: (1) Will the challenge end when someone wins the $1m prize, or will it continue, with another prize? (2) Is it okay to post here an initial draft of a challenge proposal, prior to submitting an application, and solicit advice on protocols and so...

Apparently, our solar system has at least twelve planets, perhaps more. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060816_planet_definition.html Should be interesting to see how the astrologers fit that into their "system". Was Ceres ascendant when you were born? ooooh!

It must be easy to put up money for something that can't possibly happen. Heck, I'll give a Billion Dollars to anyone finding a bigfoot. (No offense to the foundation!) The Elvis Challenge.

Jeff promised to keep the Challenge Applications forum updated with challenge applications threads, but hardly anything happens. Is this because there is a dearth of applications? Or is Jeff overworked? Or does the JREF not value the applications threads as much as we do? If anybody are in the...

Before I start I want to make it clear I claim no paranormal powers nor any desire to chase after the challenge, nor any desire to see someone win it and/or not win it - this is purely me thinking aloud about something which fascinates me. I am curious as to the response to demonstrated...

As of late, I have taken to ask several woos to go and grab Randi's Million if they really believe that what they claim is true. Needless to say, I wasn't successful - and I really was just doing it to get my point across better. Still, I was wondering what I could do or say to get people to at...

Ok, here's the deal... I have spoken with my sister and told her about the grilling I (rightfully) received here. In addition, we spoke to great lengths about the Ouija, psychics, and people who see dead people. My sister's friend at work apparently see's and speaks with dead people....ok...

OK - I've only been hanging around JREF actively for about a year - and perhaps someone has already thought of this idea. Or perhaps it violates the spirit of the challenge rules (I don't think it does - but I could be wrong.) I'm posting to this thread as I see it more as a TAMV issue than a...

I'm in a debate on a more conservative forum; and over there it seems to be an axiom that liberals have more hate-filled rhetoric than conservatives. Having challenged that point to argue that there is childishness and hateful words on both sides substituting for reasoned debate, I have been...

Hi, I'm new in this forum and I will like to know if the homeopathy challenge consists in poving that there is something in a dilution over the Avogadro limit, or poving that homeopathy cures, or both. Thanks

I hope this doesn't mean that restrictions similar to the ones KRAMER had will be placed on what Jeff can post now.

We are pleased to announce that Billy Graham has accepted the 21st century descendants from the 1st century marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene's Challenge to a "Duel of Truths". Billy Graham's Reply: "We appreciate your desire to debate the issue of truth surrounding the idea that someone...

Anyone who whishes to apply for the challange currently has to save, download and print the whole HTML challenge application website. Wouldn't it be better, if a printer-friendly PDF file was added to the page? Something like this...

Now that the Challenge is no longer on hiatus per Jeff Wagg's message, can the Challenge administrator answer two questions? 1) Will new applications be posted in the forum as before? 2) If so, and if any new applications came in during the hiatus, when may we expect to see them posted? - Timothy

Just once---I'd like to see a post that's obviously trollish in origin (AmyWilson's "do you have the balls" post for example) be totaly IGNORED. Nada.....not a single response. The post will stand alone and completely ignored as if it never existed. I'm not trying to find out how a troll...

We should send them lots of chocolate, acetometaphin and ibuprufen.

Here’s a thought! Seems lot a lot of folks who would take the challenge are now put off by the affidavit requirement. What if we made that hump a little easier for them to get over? Enter the “Paranormal Challenge Irregulars” (Sherlock Holmes, Baker St. Irregulars; get it...

I've been thinking about this for quite some time, and finally put up a webpage on it http://www.statisticool.com/jrefchallengestats.htm Does anyone believe that after 1,000+ tests that are statistical in nature are carried out, that anyone will win by chance? This applies not only to the...

If one were a woo and wanted to work at a welcoming university where might one wander? Ordinarily one might expect to equate woo-friendliness with low academic standards across the board, but that's not always the case. So, ladies and gentlemen, your nominations please for the top...

If Theists predominately believe what they do based on emotion rather than intellect, isn’t it doubtful that intellectual argument will encourage them to question or change their beliefs? Perhaps a more “touchy-feely” compassionate and sympathetic approach might work better. Any suggestions?

Given that the "Challenge" (through no fault of the JREF) is stuck in an eternal "Twilight Zone" of never actually getting past first base of trying to just prove that anything remotely paranormal is true, I would like to posit a new facet to the challenge. It is that a someone can actually...

Hey guys could you give me a hand? I posted some talkorigins stuff (ERV evidence) on the Hannity forums and asked ID supporters to explain it. At first I got no answer. But now they seem to being coming out of the woodwork. The responses I'm getting are easily refuted but there are a few too...

Need Help with Thought Experiment design to challenge "Privileged Planet" folks Just finished watching "The Privileged Planet"...which argues pretty much the opposite of what I propose in my upcoming short film "Outside In". I'm oversimplifying but the whole foundation of their idea (and the...

The hannity.com forums are full of very lively debate between radical fundies, skeptics, and whackjobs of all stripes. One of the hot topics over there lately is ID, naturally. I posted a thread over there challenging the fundies to post positive evidence for ID. We'll see what comes of it...

Although I'm not sure what category my ability would fall under. I can confidently state that I have the amazing ability to negate any psychic or medium. I can demonstrate this with any psychic or medium. 1- What, SPECIFICALLY, you claim to do as a demonstration of your abilities? I can...

Im starting this thread to remind you all of the claims of "chaos magick". To begin with, their approach is to disregard the mass complexities of rituals and rules established by others as unnecessary, and focusing on "RESULTS". They are a "RESULTS" oriented society. Here is something on their...

From someone-a medium no less-on Bad Psychics who obviously has a problem with Randi/JREF having final decision on million dollar challenge! You love this: Told you :D

I was watching the BBC Horizon homeopathy documentary again, and was wondering, if the results had lined up for homeopathy - would it be all over? Would Randi have paid out? Put another way, is the $1,000,000 challenge a bet that Randi cannot be tricked? If you succeed in tricking him or a...

Hi there, I understand that JREF will not now consider people who claim to be able to survive without food or water for the milliom dollar challenge. I have had a converstion with someone who is adimant that they have and can survive for longer than 21 days with no food or water and is...

First, please let me make it clear that I am not an applicant, nor do I ever intend to be an applicant, for the James Randi Paranormal Challenge. I simply do not believe in paranormal activity of any sort. As an adherent of a naturalistic philosophy, I am confident that physics and its...