snip $10,000 is less than the typical fee that i am ordinarily offered for lecturing to a serious audience (i often don't accept it, especially in the case of a student audience, because i am a dedicated teacher). it is not, therefore, a worthwhile inducement for me to travel all the way across the atlantic to debate with an ignorant fool. you can tell him that if he donates $100,000 to the richard dawkins foundation for reason and science (it's a charitable donation, tax deductible) i'll do it. a further condition is that it will be filmed by josh timonen for my website, richarddawkins.net, and distributed by josh as a dvd, if he thinks it is funny enough. endsnip
and, when offered $20K instead,
snip $20,000 is closer to the fees that i am customarily offered. however, i am not in this for the money. my interest is in getting the banana man to part with $100,000 of his money so that that money will not be available for buying animatronic dinosaurs with saddles, or other similar nonsense. the fact that he would be making a substantial donation to a charity dedicated to reason and science adds to the humour of the situation. endsnip
