The peer-reviewed journal that published a biology paper mentioning the “mighty creator” has retracted the article. The paper’s downfall was not its creationist statements, however, but its “apparently plagiarised passages from several previously published articles,” according to a news release issued by the journal’s publisher, Wiley-VCH.

The paper has drawn a blizzard of criticism in the blogosphere about the peer-review process at the journal, Proteomics. The editor of the journal, Michael J. Dunn, a professor at University College Dublin’s Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, told The Chronicle last week that the paper had passed peer review.

Today’s announcement says that the two authors of the article, who are scientists at Inje University, in South Korea, agreed to the retraction. Initially only one of the authors had asked for a retraction.

In the news announcement, Mr. Dunn said: “Clearly human error has caused a misstep in the normally rigorous peer review that is standard practice for Proteomics and should prevent such issues arising.” —Lila Guterman