Although online time is limited here today, I took a look a the ever entertaining Pharyngula and found a post about CreationWiki<\/a>. Now, not being one to pass up something which has farce written all over it in big creationist-style letters, I just had to have a look.<\/p>\n

Wow.<\/p>\n

The CreationWiki <\/a>is almost beyond belief. Reading the posts there is almost vomit inducing and I honestly hope it was put together by school children at best. It strikes me that the contributors have had a brushing acquaintance with science, decided they didn’t like it and have run in the total opposite direction. I am far from the best scientist in the world (if I was, I wouldn’t be blogging here..) but it takes, on average, less than 60 seconds to find critical faults in almost every one of the “wiki” entries on this site. It really is that bad. You have to check it out.<\/p>\n

It’s blurb on the front page speaks volumes about what you can hope to expect from such an august website:<\/p>\n

The CreationWiki is a free encyclopedia of creation science being assembled by the international creationist community. We encourage all creationists to get involved with the development of this valuable resource.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And yes this wiki does show how thin on the ground Creation Science is. They cite the crank Vox Day<\/a> as if he is a credible source of knowledge. They jump at every chance to insult or denigrate Darwin – for some reason it is common for creationists to think the theory of evolution is in the exact same form as it was when Darwin first thought of it, that it may have evolved itself is beyond their ability to comprehend.<\/p>\n

For some reason I am not fully sure of yet, while this site mangles Physics, Cosmology, Biology, Palaeontology (etc.), it seems to leave Chemistry largely unscathed. That is either because my chemistry is a lot worse than any other subject or maybe Creationists are just chemists in disguise….<\/p>\n

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