Don’t mention the Creator

The Times  |  World
Date posted:  1 Apr 2016
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Ming-Jin Liu is an anatomist at the Huazhong University of Science in China.

In January he and his colleagues published an article in the online journal Plos One con-cerning hand coordination. In their paper they referenced God a number of times. The conclusion says: ‘Our study can improve the understanding of the human hand and confirm that the mechanical architecture is the proper design by the Creator for dexterous performance of numerous functions following the evolutionary remodelling of the ancestral hand for millions of years.’

Even though they mentioned evolution, the inclusion of God caused a tremendous backlash from the secular scientific community and caused the writers to retract saying that there had been a translation error.

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