This Day In History:March 27, 1977 – Poorly spoken English caused the worst airplane accident in history on this day: the Canary Islands Crash.
Hot on the heels of Fox News’s hi-larious Daily Show ripoff comes Conservapedia. I guess I didn’t realize how liberally biased Wikipedia was, it being open-source and all.
The site’s content was written primarily by home-schooled students who clearly feel their world view is under attack. Although there are rumours that liberals and other anti-Americans routinely parody the site by posting the most ridiculous right wing rhetoric they can come up with, only to find it approved and published.
Some fun Conservapedia entries:
Also according to creation science theories, after the Flood, kangaroos bred from the Ark passengers migrated to Australia. There is debate whether this migration happened over land[5] — as it is thought that Australia was still for a time after the Flood connected to the Middle East before the supercontinent of Pangea broke apart[6] — or if they rafted on mats of vegetation torn up by the receding flood waters.[5] The theory that God simply generated kangaroos into existence there is considered by most creation researchers to be contra-Biblical.
Other views on kangaroo origins include the belief of some Australian aborigines that kangaroos were sung into existence by their ancestors during the “Dreamtime” [7] and the evolutionary view that kangaroos and the other marsupials evolved from a common marsupial ancestor which lived hundreds of millions of years ago.[8]
I like that two Captain Kangaroos floating on some buoyant turf is regarded as the accurate version of history while the entire concept of evolution shares a sentence with the understanding that species are created through song.
God:
It is claimed that Christianity, Islam, and Judaism worship the same God in different ways. This claim is regarded by some as a way to convert Jews and Christians to Islam, since it supports the idea that Abrahamic religion has “grown” from Judaism to Christianity to Islam.[3] However, many are skeptical of this idea.[4]
An extensive bibliography of sources for the god article:
* Cruden, A., Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testaments (Lutterworth, 1930)
* The Holy Bible (King James Version)
* The New English Bible (Oxford & Cambridge University Presses, 1970)
* The New Jerusalem Bible (Darton, Longman & Todd, 1990)
* Peake, A.S., Commentary on the Bible (Nelson, 1962)
* Young, R., Analytical Concordance to the Holy Bible (Lutterworth, 1939)
Good fun. Try also: Fox News, dinosaurs, and unicorns.
via Chris via Onion A.V. club