Scientist distances himself from creationist claims - opinion - 04 November 2007 - New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19626283.000-scientist-distances-himself-from-creationist-claims.html?feedId=online-news_rss20 --- It is a central tenet of creationism that evolutionary biologists are part of a vast conspiracy. Should evidence emerge that runs counter to Darwin's theories, creationist thinking goes, it is quickly suppressed by the scientific thought police. Now retired chemist Homer Jacobson may have inadvertently lent the conspiracy theorists a helping hand. The trouble started when Jacobson, formerly at Brooklyn College in New York, did a web search for his own name. Among the top results were creationist websites. They cited a 1955 paper on the origin of life, in which Jacobson discussed the challenges of explaining how the chemical building blocks of life emerged. Creationists say his paper shows that divine intervention must have been involved. In a letter in this month's edition of American Scientist, the journal in which the original article appeared, Jacobson retracts two paragraphs from it. He says that subsequent developments have shown his conjectures ...