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Forget what you learned at school. Dinosaurs and humans lived together, atheism has led to a large rise in bestiality and our flat Earth stays still while the Sun revolves around it.

Welcome to Conservapedia – Wikipedia from a creationist perspective.

The website is 'an online resource and meeting place where we give full credit to Christianity and America', it claims.

Perhaps not surprisingly, it seems creationism gets top marks in every one of its 5,100 entries.

On atheists, it says: 'They live their lives according to the rule that “anything goes”. In recent years, this has led to a large rise in crime, drug use, premarital sex, teenage pregnancy, pedophilia (sic) and bestiality.'

It points out that famous atheists include Richard Dawkins – and Stalin.

A quick search under 'Anything Goes' comes up with Cole Porter's 1934 musical. Conservapedia says: 'Because Porter was a homosexual, we can conclude that “anything goes” was also his philosophy of life. Many atheists have adopted the song as a description of their “moral” code.'

On dinosaurs there is 'much evidence' they walked with humans.

And on the shape of the Earth, the site quotes Bible passages that feature mountains and trees, and people looking at Jesus.

'Such mountains, such a tree or such a view of Jesus could only be possible on a flat Earth,' the site says.

'In the view of the Bible, the Earth is fixed, and the Sun revolves around it.'

Conservapedia was set up by Andrew Schlafly, the son of US right-wing activist Phyllis Schlafly, to counter the supposed anti-Christian and anti- American bias in Wikipedia articles.

And, let's be fair, it is far from being the only website with content that could be described as controversial.

But the Royal Society, the academy of science in Britain, was dismissive of Conservapedia. It said: 'People need to be very careful about where they look for scientific information.'

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Hey Ian. I'm a contributor on Conservapedia, a liberal agnostic myself, trying to make sure that the site doesn't go too far overboard. And I can tell you that this is not a parody site. I'm blocked at every channel trying to edit out creationist propaganda by *people who truly believe it* and think that pushing creationism is what the site should be about. It's really only a few admins that keep the site as off-the-charts fundamentalist as it is, but, make no mistake, Conservapedia represents what actual creationists really believe.

- Ames G, New York, NY

The scariest thing is that if you google conservapedia there are loads of sites referring to it as UNbiased.

- Chaos Theory, Northumberland

Ian

It's incredible that you think Christians really do not believe these things. Not only incredible but also dangerous. It doesn't take much searching to find people who dismiss the ideas of evolution.

Only today my builder told me he believed in ID/creationist theories. These people exist and they are numerous.

- Michael, London

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