Gadfly

Bloggers over at Scienceblogs.com are commenting on Conservapedia's treatment of evolution. Predictably, contributors to the original Conservapedia article weren't evolution-friendly or knowledgeable. The article I viewed (4:00 pm CST on 2/22/07) was written by someone who obviously knows the science, but I'll be curious to see how long the article lasts. It states, for example, that "In general, controversy [about evolution] has centered on the philosophical, social, and religious implications of evolution, not on the science of evolution itself; the proposition that biological evolution occurs through the mechanism of natural selection is completely uncontested within the scientific community."

I don't think that kind of definition is going to last on a site that bills itself as an alternative to the "anti-Christian, anti-American" Wikipedia. The main evidence for this charge is that some entries on Wikipedia date events using "CE" instead of "AD." There are other, equally silly charges (28 of them), but none rise above the level of "British spelling is acceptable on Wikipedia; therefore, Wikipedia is anti-American."

Ever heard of Ugly Americans?