Wide-eyed disbelief
Saturday, February 24th, 2007
Really, I don’t know where to start. Well, no, that’s not a lie, I do: in its own words, “Conservapedia is a much-needed alternative to Wikipedia, which is increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American.” I don’t know where to go from there. I want to…edit…I want to comment…I…
ech, really, I’ll just drop in some good examples and let you go from there.
- The Conservapedia Commandments, in which the first rule is”Everything you post must be true and verifiable.”
- On the heels of that, the origins of the Kangaroo: “Like all modern animals, modern kangaroos originated in the Middle East[1] and are the descendants of the two founding members of the modern kangaroo baramin that were taken aboard Noah’s Ark prior to the Great Flood” A baramin, by the way, is “a lineage of earthly life that that was originally created by God during the Creation Week.”
- Faith is unique to Christianity. A quote from Jesus is somehow proof that Christians mean it more than anyone else.
- The home page proclaims it has “over 3,400 educational, clean and concise entries on historical, scientific, legal, and economic topics,” and is therefore “one of the largest user-controlled free encyclopedias on the internet.” I suppose that (uncited, unverified) claim can be made easily enough when you fill your info resource with entries like James Buchanan, for example, which says in its entirety: “Was the 15th president of the United States. He served as the president from 1857-1861.”
If I were a Conservative I’d probably be annoyed at this–not all Conservatives are Christian Creationists. But I guess funadamentala-christia-creationapedia.com doesn’t roll off the tongue as well.
