Way back in 2000, the Institute for Creation Research had to
apologize for a radio program it aired. In it
Marvin Lubenow, the top YEC "expert" on human evolution used an a story from the
April 1997 issue of Discover as evidence against human evolution. That story was about the discovery of Neandertal musical instruments was an April fools gag -- one that was meant to be obvious. And even if it was not obvious, a real expert on human evolution is someone who is supposed to be familiar with the field, the people working it it, and what has been published in the peer-reviewed journals. Real experts don't get what they know from short articles in pop science magazines. After Jim Foley pointed out that the ICR fell for an April Fools joke in
The Talk.Origins Archive the retraction quickly came.
Five years latter, Jim Foley has an
update in his T.O. blog. Basically
Answers in Genesis has posted to its web an
article that again cites the April fools gag. The author is
Brad Harrub of
Apologetics Press writing in
TJ, AiG's so-called
"peer-reviewed technical journal". As Foley notes, the article also uses an argument that
should not be used. Some peer review. Harrub has been continually writing some of the
worst young-earth creationist articles around. He recently had an
article in the other so called "peer-reviewed technical journal" of young-earth creationism:
Creation Research Society Quarterly.
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