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Uncommon Descent Contest: Is there any progress in the study of human...
Here’s the intro to the contest, riffing off the bewildering soap opera of claims about the relationship between modern humans and Neanderthals, followed by the question, for a free copy of The Nature...
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Impress your friends with a piece of Mars – contest judged
Sorry for judging delay. The contest, you’ll recall, riffed off New Scientist’s offer of a Mars rock: Tell New Scientist what the first person to set foot on Mars should say. The winner gets a copy of...
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Uncommon Descent Contest: Why do people refuse to read books they are...
The contest is here. The question was, for a free copy of The Nature of Nature , why would a scientist or scholar actually volunteer to trash books unread? It seems to happen frequently to books...
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Student essay contest: What difference does intelligent design make to science?
Thanks to a kind donor, we can sponsor an essay contest this summer. We’ve all heard what the effect would be of accepting design as a cause in nature alongside of law and chance: Science hurtles back...
View ArticleUncommon Descent contest List the five books that most helped ID – judged
Here’s the contest: “Uncommon Descent contest: List the five books that helped ID most – written by non-ID researchers.” It riffs off an earlier contest: “List the ten most significant ID books of the...
View ArticleUncommon Descent Contest: Give Darwinist Jerry Coyne’s atheist crusade/jihad...
(This contest is now closed for judging. Thanks to all participants.) Judged here. Crusade/jihad? No, it doesn’t properly describe this antic in a science journal (see also this). In the best...
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Uncommon Descent Contest: Give Darwinist Jerry Coyne’s atheist crusade/jihad...
Gnu Atheist symbol by Aratina Cage [The winner is Jammer at 11 for The Gnusades. More below] The most recent Uncommon Descent contest was April 21: Give University of Chicago Darwinist Jerry Coyne’s...
View ArticleUncommon Descent contest: Contest offered for mendacity in journalism. But...
(No one entered this contest. – UD News) Piggybacking off this: Walter Duranty Prize for Journalistic Mendacity offered PJ Media and The New Criterion are now accepting nominations for what our readers...
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Contest: If humans originated as a chimp-pig hybrid (recent claim) …
chimp vs.human chromosomes … what should we call our earliest ancestors? This just in: Dr. Eugene McCarthy is a Ph.D. geneticist who has made a career out of studying hybridization in animals. He now...
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Contest: If humans originated as a chimp-pig hybrid (recent claim) — Judged
Many funny entries, including “the missing pork link” and “the Baconator.” Nut we have a winner in Brian1009 at #16, quoted here in part: according to Wikipedia on interspecific hybrid naming...
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Uncommon Descent Contest: What should we call the reviewer of a book on...
Prize: A hardback copy of J. Scott Turner’s Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something Alive and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It Recently, a friend linked us to the fact that Amazon had...
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Uncommon Descent Contest: What should we call the reviewer of a book on...
Here. Years ago, we pioneered the term noviewer, to describe people who review books without reading them. Now a friend has written to ask for a contest to come up with term to describe the reviewer...
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How can we make low-energy concrete for the Moon or Mars — or, Earth?
The C18 rediscovery/ re-invention of concrete . . . it had apparently been made by the Romans, Greeks and Egyptians [–> earlier, the Nabataeans] (and many natural, volcanic or sedimentary rocks are...
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