The Elusive Scientific Basis of Creation "Science"
@article{Scott1985TheES, title={The Elusive Scientific Basis of Creation "Science"}, author={Eugenie C Scott and Henry P. Cole}, journal={The Quarterly Review of Biology}, year={1985}, volume={60}, pages={21 - 30} }
Is there, as claimed, scientific support for "scientific creationism"? If so, arguments that scientific creationism is a legitimate scientific discipline deserving "equal time" with evolution in public-school science classes would be strengthened. An early study (Cole and Scott, 1982) revealed that 28 prominent creationists did not publish articles dealing with empirical, experimental or theoretical evidence for the scientific creationist "model" in over 4000 journals covered by the data…
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