Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Facts not necessary for conservative web site

Unhappy with the world as it is, Andy Schlafly is creating "a conservative encyclopedia you can trust."

The problem is, it's tainted with a literal interpretation of biblical scripture.

Example from a LA Times report:

Take the Pleistocene Epoch. Most scientists know it as the ice age and date it back at least 1.6 million years. But Conservapedia calls it "a theorized period of time" — a theory contradicted, according to the entry, by "multiple lines of evidence" indicating that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old, as described in the Book of Genesis.


The future of America?