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    • A recent contributor to the popular "Amateur Scientist" column in Scientific American has taken to the nation's airwaves to complain that the magazine refuses to run any more of his columns because of his belief in creationism. Forrest Mims, III, a prolific science journalist from Seguin, Texas, has appeared on several talk shows and alleged that editor Jonathan Piel reneged on a promise to make Mims the regular author of the monthly column after Mims told Piel he also wrote for several fundamentalist Christian publications and the two men argued about evolution. Piel says the magazine "has never discriminated against anyone for their religious beliefs, and we never will." But Piel declined to discuss the details of what he called "an internal matter." Armand Schwab, who recently stepped down as the magazine's...

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