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Archive for February 24th, 2007

Wide-eyed disbelief

Conservapedia.

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.

  1. The Conservapedia Commandments, in which the first rule is”Everything you post must be true and verifiable.”
  2. 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.”
  3. Faith is unique to Christianity. A quote from Jesus is somehow proof that Christians mean it more than anyone else.
  4. 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.