I was busy yesterday at work, so I managed to avoid looking at the “Conservapedia” until James Nicoll, the bastard, drew my attention to the entry on Relativity:
Unlike most advances in physics, the theory of relativity was proposed based on mathematical theory rather than observation. The theory rests on two postulates that are difficult to test, and then derives mathematically what the physical consequences should be. Those two postulates are that the speed of light never changes, and that all laws of physics are the same in every (inertial) frame of reference no matter where it is or how fast it is traveling. This theory rejects Isaac Newton’s God-given theory of gravitation and replaces it with a concept that there is a continuum of space and time, and that large masses (like the sun) bend space in a manner similar to how a finger can depress an area of a balloon. From this proposed bending of space the expression arose that “space is curved.” But experiments later proved that space is flat overall.
Wow. It’s like a contentious transcription of somebody’s notes from “Physics for Poets.”
I’m just going to choose to believe that this is satire.