Creationists Announce New Science Journal

A new online technical jounal, Answers Research Journal (ARJ), has been announced by Answers in Genesis.

...this will be a professional peer-reviewed technical journal for the publication of interdisciplinary scientific and other relevant research from the perspective of the recent Creation and the global Flood within a biblical framework.

In other words a technical journal for those that think the earth is less than 6000 years old and that the earth was destroyed by a massive worldwide flood. Should be interesting. This type of journal is necessary for young earth creationists "scientists" because they cannot get their "research" published in actual, peer-reviewed, established technical journals.

The editor-in-chief of the new journal will be Dr. Andrew Snelling, former professor of geology at the Institute for Creation Research. The new journal has put out a call for new papersand they have set their sights high.

Papers should be no more than 10,000 words long. Color diagrams, figures, and photographs are encouraged. Papers can be in any relevant field of science, theology, history, or social science, but they must be from a young-earth and young-universe perspective. Rather than merely pointing out flaws in evolutionary theory, papers should aim to assist the development of the Creation and Flood model of origins.

Here is one thing I'm sure is going to happen. Remember the "Sokal Affair"? This was the hoax paper published in the journal Social Text by physicist Anthony Sokal. Sokal wanted to find out if that journal would publish an article "if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions." Social Text had no outside peer review process and the article "Quantum Gravity" was published.

Why did Sokal do this? His answer:

But why did I do it? I confess that I'm an unabashed Old Leftist who never quite understood how deconstruction was supposed to help the working class. And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them. --Allan Sokal

This type of hoax is almost certain to happen to the Answers Research Journal. Read this computer-generated post-modernist "research paper". Or, go here to computer generate a computer science paper. Maybe someone will write a computer program to write young earth creationist research papers. Shouldn't be all that hard to do. Come to think of it....any paper that is published in that journal is by definition a hoax already.