Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Meatstick History: Origin of the kangaroo

Well, it's been a week since I have had the time to get a decent post together. But this post is well worth the wait. My wife told me today about a website she had heard about on NPR called conservapedia.com

The creator of the website claims that wikipedia has a liberal bias so he decided to create a new encyclopedia that obviously has a conservative bias. If wikipedia were called "liberapedia.com" this guy would be on to something. The ridiculousness of conservapedia.com can be examined by reading the following the entry on the origin of the kangaroo:

According to the origins theory model used by creation scientists, modern kangaroos, like all modern animals, originated in the Middle East and are the descendants of the two founding members of the modern kangaroo baramin that were taken aboard Noah's Ark prior to the Great Flood. Also according to creation science theories, after the Flood, kangaroos bred from the Ark passengers migrated to Australia. There is debate whether this migration happened over land[2] -- as Australia was still for a time connected to Europe by a land bridge similar to the one that connected Asia to America[3] -- or if they rafted on mats of vegetation torn up by the receding flood waters.[2] Another theory is that God simply generated kangaroos into existence there.

Creationists' misguided views don't shock me anymore, I have been desensitized by them.
I feel the creator of conservapedia.com left out another very important theory regarding the origin of the kangaroo so I took the liberty of adding it to the discussion section of his website, it can be found here (until they delete it). Here is the famous Space Ship Theory:


I think the origin of the kangaroo should also include discussion of a belief held by many of Riley Martin's followers, the O-Qua Tangin Wann. They believe that Kangaroos originated from the "mothership" from the planet Tan. The alien visitors from Tan visited Earth a few hundred years ago and brought with them a male and female kangaroo. The "mothership" decided after visiting serveral continents that Australia was the best fit for their kangaroo species.

My friend Will said it best when he asked me, "I wonder what conservapedia says about pedophilia, homosexuals, lies, fraud, and hypocracy."

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