The Kangaroo article on Conservapedia "The Trustworthy Encyclopedia" (for the uninitiated it's a pro-US conservative "Christian" version of Wikipedia for homeschool families) receives a lot of attention from what I suppose American Conservatives would call the “Liberal Media” due to its entertaining statements about kangaroos migrating from the Middle East to Australia after the Great Flood (Perhaps you remember colouring-in a picture of a big wooden boat one morning in Sunday School? With two giraffes sticking out the top and a smiling bearded man watching benignly as the rest of humanity perishes in torrential floodwater? If so, then you’ll understand that all land animals currently in existence are descended from the survivors of that mass extinction event!). It is worth checking on from time to time as it … er… evolves: Recently it has become something of a frontier in the Culture War, blossoming in a delightfully organic way with statements like “A majority of biologists regard evolution as the most likely explanation for the origin of species including the kangaroo, but this is to be expected, given their worldviews.”

The Wikia software used to create online scratchpads like Wikipedia and Conservapedia features a History tab on each page which allows us to watch how the pages grew and developed. Sadly the Kangaroo page only has a couple of recent entries in its history: the earlier stuff seems to have been lost to posterity. The talk page has fared better, so we can watch this latest battle in the ongoing American Civil War unfold.

There will be more from Conservapedia later, I'm sure.