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Here are the winners of our new words and daffy definitions contest.

Your new creation–evolution words are ready!

New words and meanings for creationists, evolutionists, and for those still sitting on the fence.

What's a cyberfossil, a Noah's Aardvark, and a Frankenclone? And what is Darwindow dressing, a mootation, and halo plants? They're all new words in the creation–evolution vocabulary! Some are clever, some are witty, and some … well, at least they will get you thinking.

A few years ago we launched a contest to find new words or definitions that could be used in the areas of creation, evolution, and popular science.

Here are the winners:

Scientific word most likely to catch on:
Frankenclone
(An animal that has been given DNA from a totally different kind of animal.)
Best phrase to fit a lot of situations:
Unnatural selection
(Choosing the smallest or worst of anything.)
Most descriptive word:
Quibble-ution
(A dispute among evolutionists over how evolution occurred.)
Best non-scientific word:
Cyberfossil
(Someone who spends a lot of time on the internet.)
Most useful new phrase for creationists:
Darwindow dressing
(Anything that tries to make evolution look respectable.)
Best all-purpose phrase:
Darwinian defense
(An excuse people use when they don't have facts to back them up.)
Special judges award:
Moomification
(What ancient Egyptians did to preserve dead cows.)

Below is the complete list of entries we thought were good enough to include in the contest. (You wouldn't want to know most of those that didn't make it!) Maybe you can find a few that will be useful to you, or let us know your own thoughts for a new word.

quibble-ution	Dispute among evolutionists over how evolution occurred.
pebble-ution	An evolutionary idea that didn't rock the scientific world.
cyberfossil	Someone who is always on the internet.
Noah's Aardvark	The first animal on Noah's Ark in alphabetical order.
Tyrannosaurus wrecks	Dinosaur graveyard.
dime-o-saur	A very badly preserved dinosaur fossil.
missing sandwich	The missing link's lunch.
halo plants	Plants that grow near nuclear reactors.
Darwinter Olympics	The struggle to propose something new about evolution that won't be given a cold shoulder.
Gould	A medal you get if you win the Darwinter Olympics.
Hawking	Going door to door trying to sell evolution.
Dawkins	Tiny dawks.
continental drift	The continental breakfast you ordered that didn't arrive.
radioactive dating	Searching for a future husband or wife through radio talk-back programs.
guraniums	Flowers from Chernobyl.
missing-link evidence	Non-evidence used as the main evidence for something.
carnivore	Animal that goes round in circles when music plays.
herbivore	Polite animal that always lets his wife go first.
Frankenclone	An animal that has been given some DNA from a totally different kind of animal.
Adam	What you do to big numbers when you have a calculator.
Eve	What people shout at the start of a tug-of-war.
zebralution	The belief that everything in science is either black or white.
extinct	A dead skunk.
unnatural selection	Choosing the smallest piece of pie.
bad genes	Blue pants that won't fade.
mootation	The call of an animal with mad cow disease.
level-ution	Survival of the mundane.
eclipse	What the lunar gardener does to his hedges.
Darwindow dressing	Something that makes evolution look respectable.
Darwince	Expression on an evolutionist's face after losing a debate to a creationist.
rebelutionist	An evolutionist who becomes a creationist.
arrival of the fittest	What Darwin never explained.
cyber viper	An evolutionist who anonymously sends abusive emails to creationists.
Henry Morris	An English creationist's old car.
Tyrannosaurus rocks	Coprolites from tyrannosaurs.
moomification	What was done to dead Egyptian cows.
pyramid	An organized pile of Egyptian rocks.
Darwindow shopping	Looking for an evolutionary explanation that works.
paradox	Two surgeons.
Noah's Park	A Noah's Ark theme park.
Darwinian defense	An excuse people use when they don't have facts to back up what they have said or done.
Darwindfall	An evolutionary idea that people accept.
survival of the littlest	The theory that bacteria are better able to survive than dinosaurs.
creationist cannibal	A creationist who is fed up with evolutionists.
born-again agnostic	Someone who doubts whether anyone can doubt God.
taxidermist	A cab driver with bad skin.
bacteria	The rear entrance to a cafeteria.
McTheory	A scientific theory that isn't worth a research grant.
Darwindstorm	Disagreement over how evolution works.
paleo-fantasy	An explanation of how a fossil proves evolution.

Congratulations to those who submitted winning entries. And thanks to everyone who took part.