What a great idea:
Here’s the question: How would acceptance of design, alongside law and chance, as a fundamental cause in nature change the way we do science?
Eligible entrants: High school, college, or university undergrads, worldwide.
Prizes: $200 first prize, $100 second prize
Length: 1200-1500 words
Deadline: Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Submit to: Uncommon Descent at udnews.contests@gmail.com
Judges to be announced.
Of course, from a Christian point of view, nature's laws are themselves designed, and chance is an epistemological/ontological conundrum to earth-dwellers looking "through a glass darkly". What this means is, what appears as chance to us may in fact be the hand of God ever-so-subtley directing natural forces to obtain his ends. Did not the Lord, e.g., cause a wind to blow, still a storm, etc. etc.?
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