Schrödinger's Wine

Wow. Just wow.

Every now and again Conservapedia, usually in the form of Andrew Schlafly, dishes up something so stupid and so monumentally insane, that I actually struggle to find words to comment on it.

Such is this example, from Conservapedia's wacky article on "Biblical Scientific Foreknowledge‎," in which Andy ventures forth to prove that the Bible knew all about quantum mechanics. It's so stupid, I can't even comment. I'll just leave Andy to speak for himself:

The second chapter of the Gospel of John describes the conversion of water into wine by Jesus at a wedding reception. Intuitively one would expect the conversion to occur before anyone tasted the drink. But under quantum mechanics, it is not until observation that matter acquires a definite state. John 2:9 describes this precisely as required by quantum mechanics, and the KJV misses this subtle issue of timing in the conversion.

LIfe Without Ken

One of the questions that frequently gets asked is "Just how long can Conservapedia survive?" The simple answer to that is as long as Andrew Schlafly has some of his mother's money to spend and some bile to spew on the world. And given that Andy hates everything from professors to Hollywood, via abortion, the "liberal" Bible and President Obama, that's a lot of bile.

So, a more relevant question could be "Just how viable is Conservapedia as n ongoing project?" Remember, this is supposed to be the site that will prove to be bigger than, and the eventual downfall of, Wikipedia. Bearing this in mind, one would expect CP to be a hive of activity and at first glance, that would appear to be the case.

Curiouser and curiouser

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Curiouser and curiouser

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Terry Hurlbut & DiggPatriots

I've already mentioned that Terry Hurlbut, aka Conservapedia sysop TerryH, aka username Temlakos, was one of those fine, upstanding citizens involved with the DiggPatriots. You know, those model, moral Americans who saw it as their divine duty to censor as many Digg article comments as possible, that they didn't like. Or that didn't conform to their twisted worldview. They did this by using multiple accounts to vote down articles they didn't like, and even have progressive/liberal contributors banned.

Now, Terry has been notably silent about his involvement, especially once it was brought up in the comments following another of his crackpot articles. Still, no doubt behind the scenes, they're still high-fiving each other and probably have the balls to grumble about being outed.

More fun with Terry Koeckritz

Hello, boys and girls, and welcome to Conservapedia Playtime, where we have more fun with Dick and Jane.  Yes, we're dealing with the biggest Dick of all today, children and I'm sure we'll have a gay old time watching this Dick prance around...

Urgh... no... enough of the children imagery. We're moving into bad touch territory there. But more on Ed Poor another time.

I mentioned in a previous post below that Conservapedia administrator, dear old mincing Terry Koeckritz just hates having his actions questioned in public (and - we are led to believe - there are some actions he really doesn't want made public). Even if that "public" is a private mailing list, comprised of about six of his peers. Terry prefers to operate in the murky reaches of private e-mails (most of which he bcc's to Andrew Schlafly anyway) because there he can be his true obnoxious self and any subsequent accusations boil down to a "he said - he said" argument.

Spreading the Word

Ok, ok, shameless self-promotion time, but seeing as Wordpress have to all this effort, I think it's only fair to use it.

What am I on about, you ask? Well, they've added a whole bunch of "share this" choices, which you'll find at the end of each article. So, if you like what I've been rabitting on about, please take a few seconds to click a button and send it forth into the ethernet.