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Uncommon Descent contest: List the five books that helped ID most – written by non-ID researchers

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In the “List the ten most significant ID books of the last 25 years” (judged today), Mung at #1 wanted to know if we could include books by authors who deny that they endorse ID.

(Contest closed for judging. Watch for another contest.)

A surplus can of worms for that contest, but a great contest in its own right!

Briefly: Lots of books whose authors are looking for any solution other than ID have actually helped ID. List five and give a reason for the top three.

We’ll be flexible here because it’s a broad category by nature, and you may know books that many of us don’t.

One thing though: “Helped ID” means “helped in a conceptual way.” A Darwin troll could write a five-star cussbox against ID and help only in the sense that few readers wish to read him any further. So readers are spared the second hand abuse. A good outcome, that, but let’s hear about ideas that help.

This is a great chance to introduce others to some challenging ideas.

Prizes: 1st: A free copy of The Nature of Nature

2nd: A free copy of Don Johnson’s valuable Probability’s Nature and the Nature of Probability.

Deadline August 6, 2011

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