“Creationists thought they had a magic bullet, but the author retracted his paper and they are left holding the bag!”
Him retracting it doesn’t change anything and there is no bag. Only the one that the evo-religion people have over their heads.
Retracting a paper because its being used to support a belief the author doesn’t support is childish. It points to either his paper was wrong or his belief is wrong. Which one is it?
“Research? But that’s hard work! (Let’s go the mall instead.)”
Yeah its such hard work that it took him 50 plus years to realize what his paper really meant and the shock was too great.
Belief is more suited to religion than science. Science works from facts and theories.
Or, as Heinlein wrote,
Belief gets in the way of learning.Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973