For those who may not have seen it, the April issue of Scientific American has a letter from the editors on their new evolution position:
In retrospect, this magazine's coverage of so-called evolution has been hideously one-sided. For decades, we published articles in every issue that endorsed the ideas of Charles Darwin and his cronies. True, the theory of common descent through natural selection has been called the unifying concept for all of biology and one of the greatest scientific ideas of a all time, but that was no excuse to be fanatics about it.
Where were the answering articles presenting the poweful case for scientific creationism? Why were we so unwilling to suggest that dinosaurs lived 6,000 years ago or that a cataclysmic flood carved the Grand Canyon? Blame the scientists. They dazzled us with their fancy
fossils, their radiocarbon dating and their tens of thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles. As editors, we had no business being persuaded by mountains of evidence.
Get ready for a new Scientific American. This magazine will be dedicated purely to
science, fair and balanced science, and not just the science that scientists say is science. And it will start on April Fools' Day.