Blog Post : Conservapedia: A Laugh A Minute
Conservapedia: A Laugh A Minute
Reality has a liberal bias. What's a poor bible-thumper to do?
Create his own reality, of course. Enter conservapedia.com, an unintentionally hilarious repository of Republican propaganda in America. It's a special place where any dates using "B.C.E." or "C.E." will be mercilessly edited to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Nearly every science-related article there cites a single text: a bible-based high school course for homeschooled children written by Apologia Educational Ministries.
I'm not actually sticking up for Wikipedia here. Everything you read at Wikipedia.org should be considered highly suspect, and woe unto you if you cite it on a term paper. Still, editing Wikipedia is at least an open process, and a skeptic can still extract a lot of value from their articles. But I can't find much of value at all at Conservapedia.
Here are a few articles plucked literally at random for your enjoyment.
Huns
Basically conquered the entire Roman Empire. They were very barbaric.
Down feathers
Feathers with smooth barbules but no hooked barbules. [1]
| [1] | Wile, Dr. Jay L. Exploring Creation With Biology. Apologia Educational Ministries, Inc. 1998 |
Bond Energy
Bond energy is the energy which must be exerted to bread a bond.
Theory of Evolution
...In addition, the biological world has the strong appearance of being created as can been below:
"One of the world's most famous scientists, probably the most famous living biologist, is Sir Francis Crick, the British co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, a Nobel Prize winner... Crick is also a fervent atheistic materialist, who propounds the particle story. In his autobiography, Crick says very candidly biologists must remind themselves daily that what they study was not created, it evolved; it was not designed, it evolved. Why do they have to remind themselves of that? Because otherwise, the facts which are staring them in the face and trying to get their attention might break through. What we discovered when I developed a working group of scientists, philosophers, et al., in the United States was that living organisms look as if they were designed and they look that way because that is exactly what they are." - Evolution And Christian Faith by Phillip E. Johnson
XBox 360
Realeased by Microsoft in november of 2005. The first of next-gen Video game consoles. First console to have 1080i HD capability, (1080p with HD-DVD Drive) and fully wireless capability. It Experienced major shortages on release.
This article has been proposed for deletion.