
By: Elliott Finesse
Re: Creation "Research"?

Is creation science being kept out of legitimate science journals as some
creationists contend?

Excerpts from Creationist Credentials

By Micheal Cranford (mikec@sail.labs.tek.com), Bob Garwood
(bgarwood@sngldsh.cv.nrao.edu)

Creationists' Scientific Publications:

 Eugenie Scott and Henry Cole used SCI-SEARCH to do a 3-year scan of over
1000 scientific and technical journals looking for articles written by
creationists. Only 6 papers from creationists were published. None of the
papers were about creationism.

They then checked submissions to journals and discovered that out of
135000 submitted manuscripts only 18 covered creationism. All were
rejected for several faults including "ramblings", "no coherent
arguments", "high-school theme quality", "tendentious essay not suitable
for publication anywhere", "more like a long letter than a referenced
article", "no systematic treatment", "does not define terms", and "flawed
arguments".

Scott and Cole ended up concluding "from the reviewers' comments, it
appears that laymen rather than professional scientists are submitting the
few articles that have surfaced the last 3 years". "... when only 18
articles are submitted to 68 journals in three years, and those articles
are submitted apparently by persons not skilled in established scientific
methodology and theory, it is inappropriate to invoke censorship." [1]

[1] Evidence for Scientific Creationism
    Science, May 17, 1985, Vol. 228, page 837.


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