Another right-wing clone of a pop-culture phenomenon

Merle Kessler's blog post today drew my attention to Conservapedia. This is "a much-needed alternative to Wikipedia, which is increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American," according to its front page. It's "an online resource and meeting place where we favor Christianity and America."

Merle points out several howlers in Conservapedia entries, such as "Nothing useful has ever been built based on the theory of relativity." But I thought I'd explore a few of their articles on controversial religious, scientific, and political topics and see what they had to say. The site is exceedingly slow, but I persevered and found these pearls of wisdom:

• On Evolution: "Evolutionist[sic] have no real evidence that macroevolution occurs and there is no consensus on how it allegedly occurs..."
  "Evolution Violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Evolution does in fact lower the entropy of the sum of the living DNA on this planet."
• On the ACLU: "... the ACLU of Michigan (which has no connection with other ACLU organizations) defended a Christian student seeking to have a Biblical passage on the student's yearbook page. Most people believe that these extremely rare occurrences are simply an attempt by the ACLU to mask an anti-Christian and anti-American agenda."
• On Unicorns: "The existence of unicorns is controversial. Secular opinion is that they are mythical. However, they are referred to in the Bible nine times, which provides an unimpeachable de facto argument for their once having been in existence."

(I tried to avoid entries that had been obviously vandalized, like the one on Bill Clinton that noted he "managed to serve two terms without botching the prosecution of two wars, manipulating intelligence, engaging in a systematic program of torture, or mishandling the federal response to flooding of a major American city.")