Science Made Stupid
Ten percent more seriously, I don't know why everyone got so excited about Conservapedia. There was already a conservative Wikipedia. Creationwiki.org has been bringing you the questionable resource of a Creationist encyclopedia since before I can remember caring.
CreationWiki makes me feel bad, because there's not much to Creationism. "God said it, I believe it, that settles it," is a bumper sticker for a reason, and a few wrong opinions about evolutionism are not enough to flesh it out into an encyclopedia. And the whole appeal to authority thing makes it a pointless exercise. It is possible for one man to know all about Creationism; many do, so why not just ask them? There is no collaboration to be done.
Still, it sounded like a good idea at the time, so now we have a Creationist encyclopedia. There's nothing you can do about it, so why not make the most of it? That was probably the rationale behind some of the articles, which seem to serve no purpose but to make CreationWiki less sad, like the Oceanic Whitetip Shark article ("Most sharks are pretty fast but not the Whitetip shark."), or the complete set of articles on the Periodic Table.
It might seem like there's not much to say about lithium from a Creationist perspective, but CreationWiki manages, basically by ditching that perspective and just talking frankly about lithium. It contains most of the information in the Wikipedia article on lithium, but with a thick aura of desperation. Nobody is going to use creationwiki.org as a resource on freaking lithium. You know it, I know it, so why not write sentences like
CreationWiki makes me feel bad, because there's not much to Creationism. "God said it, I believe it, that settles it," is a bumper sticker for a reason, and a few wrong opinions about evolutionism are not enough to flesh it out into an encyclopedia. And the whole appeal to authority thing makes it a pointless exercise. It is possible for one man to know all about Creationism; many do, so why not just ask them? There is no collaboration to be done.
Still, it sounded like a good idea at the time, so now we have a Creationist encyclopedia. There's nothing you can do about it, so why not make the most of it? That was probably the rationale behind some of the articles, which seem to serve no purpose but to make CreationWiki less sad, like the Oceanic Whitetip Shark article ("Most sharks are pretty fast but not the Whitetip shark."), or the complete set of articles on the Periodic Table.
It might seem like there's not much to say about lithium from a Creationist perspective, but CreationWiki manages, basically by ditching that perspective and just talking frankly about lithium. It contains most of the information in the Wikipedia article on lithium, but with a thick aura of desperation. Nobody is going to use creationwiki.org as a resource on freaking lithium. You know it, I know it, so why not write sentences like
Lithium is also very flammable, when place over it flame it burns at high tempters, its flames is white. Lithium will also burn when it comes in compact with water.Or:
Nobody knows why Lithium is capable of being used as a mood-stabilizing drug.When you're editing a forlorn little encyclopedia like that, it must be hard not to cry. I like to imagine that the misspellings are because the author's eyes were blurred with tears, but I know it was more likely religious ecstasy. The Holy Spirit moved this man to share his amateur understanding of lithium with us, and let's not doubt that he was right to do so. The Lord works in mysterious ways, and as we now know, so does lithium.
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