Web: Oops. Creationwiki not looking so bad now

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that we use occasionally here and have commented on, is in turmoil.

One of its most prolific contributors and editors, "Essjay," a professor of religion with advanced degrees in theology and canon law, was exposed as a 24-year-old community college drop-out.

Essjay was actually Ryan Jordan, a 24-year-old from Kentucky with no advanced degrees who used texts such as Catholicism for Dummies to help him correct articles on the penitential rite or transubstantiation. He had a hand in editing 20,000 Wikipedia entries.

Hmm. Luckily, I've hidden my copy of Religious Satire for Dummies under the mattress.


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