Hand coordination is the result of “proper design by the Creator to perform a multitude of daily tasks in a comfortable way,” the authors wrote.
Referencing “the Creator” in a scientific article isn’t just funny to us and humiliating to the journal — it’s also a highly touchy subject for the larger scientific community. In recent years, creationism backers have adopted scientific-like language in their attempts to dispel evolution.
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Ming-Jin Liu, the lead author of the paper and a researcher at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, wrote in a comment Thursday that the inclusion of “the Creator” is the result of a mistranslation. The research team didn’t mean to imply God, she insists, but rather that hand coordination was the result of natural selection. Which is exactly the opposite of how it was interpreted.
Our study has no relationship with creationism. English is not our native language. Our understanding of the word Creator was not actually as a native English speaker expected. Now we realized that we had misunderstood the word Creator. What we would like to express is that the biomechanical characteristic of tendious connective architecture between muscles and articulations is a proper design by the NATURE (result of evolution) to perform a multitude of daily grasping tasks. We will change the Creator to nature in the revised manuscript. We apologize for any troubles may have caused by this misunderstanding.
In the comment thread that followed, Ming-Jin further defended her paper from any readers. “It does not affect our results if changing the word Creator to NATURE,” she wrote, which is a fair point.
ht/ Sam S.
Hey, trigger warning!!!
:p
Name one thing nature “designed.”
I’ll wait.
Forever.
Pagans
A Scientist stood before God
He told the Creator:
“This stuff isn’t all that complicated. Electromagnetic bonds, four forces, quarks, neutrinos, anybody could do it.”
He bends down and grabs a handful of dirt
“See with just this little bit of dirt I could—”
God smiled patiently.
“Go make your own little bit of dirt and get back to me.”
From looking down at the ants to gazing upward at the geese flying in formation, and the warm wind blowing, the static white clouds mapping the blue sky lit by the sun, do I reckon a Creation and a Creator.
Here are some questions for the left to answer about the theory of evolution:
1.) Since there is a separation of state and building, if evolution is the answer to where and how we came to be, doesn’t that make evolution a religion? Then why can it be taught in our schools?
2.) If humans are evolving, then what will happen when the first post-homo sapien is discovered? Our societys’ laws are predicated on the equality of everyone not just in legal statute but in biological and genetic terms. When sentient beings who are different than us begin to exist among us, how will they be handled by the legal system? Oh and will they get affirmative Action protections and benefits? Just asking.
Alan Grayson and Michelle Obama are evolutionary evidence, a rarity, an anomaly, otherwise why aren’t apes evolving to humans currently? Oh, wait, let me guess… climate change.
The Universe exists. I can see it and so can you.
Scientists, when they deal what the data IS instead of what it MEANS are participating in the honest study of the world.
What knowledge they compile without agenda can be good for us.
As I believe it, God created the Universe.
Scientists are discovering what it is.
I am a child of God. There are things Fathers know that are not shared with his children.
If evolution is a correct theory, then that is how God wanted it.
If there are Multiverses out there, then it was God who built them.
This Universe appears empty except for us.
That makes us special, just by being here.