Why creationists are out of time with history and science

Creationists fail to appreciate the history of science as well as science itself

One very positive aspect of the digital world for scientists is that there are various websites that track citations and mentions of research papers and link them together. This can be an excellent way of finding out who is using your research and, of course, to flag up papers you might not have known about and may not have otherwise seen.

However, one quirk is that some sites and articles that are styled like formally written and reviewed research papers are often picked up by the searching algorithms. In my case that means I occasionally get notifications that a less-than-scientific source has been citing my work: in particular creationist websites.