Re: Conservapedia on the dinosaur

"On 6 Mar 2007 09:46:55 -0800, in article
<1173203214.438802.192530@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, louann_m@xxxxxxxxx
stated..."

On Mar 6, 12:31 am, "Danny the Burgundy" <frontd...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
http://www.conservapedia.com/Dinosaur

The World Book Encyclopedia states that:
"The dragons of legend are strangely like actual creatures that have lived
in the past. They are much like the great reptiles [dinosaurs] which
inhabited the earth long before man is supposed to have appeared on earth.
Dragons were generally evil and destructive. Every country had them in its
mythology."

This is probably short enough to count as fair usage. But considering
that World Book is written at about the fifth-grade level, is it
really the sort of source that's going to make Conservapedia look
good?

The World Book Encyclopedia is written for kids, but it isn't too bad.
So I wondered about this reference in Conservapedia. The footnote
that they give is *not* to the World Book, but to an online source
called "Center for Scientific Creation", which in turn references the
World Book - 1973 edition, an entry written by Knox Wilson.

I suppose I could have left this here. A second-hand reference to
a 30+-year old entry in a children's encyclopedia. But, I went this
far, why not go further and check the original. I didn't find a 1973
World Book, but in the 1975 edition, there is an entry "Dragon",
written by Knox Wilson. It does have the last three sentences, but
not the first one ("like actual creatures"). And it does have this
sentence: "Dragons did not really exist, but most people believed
in them."

You can really rely on creationists, can't you?


(In their own eyes, I mean. I take the "quoting Bozo the Clown would
make Conservapedia look better" from our side of the aisle as read.)





--
---Tom S.
"...when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and
in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it."
GK Chesterton, Doubts About Darwinism (1920)

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