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24 Feb 2007 07:30 pm
In The Annals of Conservapedia
A reader writes:
I ended up surfing over to conservapedia.com for good laugh after I saw it posted on your blog. I came across the following sentence while reading their "Examples of Bias in Wikipedia"
"For example, even though most Americans (and probably most of the world) reject the theory of evolution, Wikipedia editors commenting on the topic are nearly 100% pro-evolution. Self-selection has a tendency to exacerbate bias in the absence of affirmative steps to limit it."
I don't know if it strikes you or anyone else as funny that a group of conservatives has used a reasonable definition of natural selection - "a tendency to exacerbate bias through self-selection" - to refute, er, evolution.
A small joke, I guess. The bigger joke is that conservatism is now allied to creationism.
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