Wikipedia Trail
For this trail I looked up “Blogger (service),” I was
curious as to how this blogging service started and why. While it didn’t necessarily
answer my question I did find an interesting fact: Blogger was started by Pyra
Labs but then Pyra Labs was purchased by Google. I found also that blooger is a
free service, while its competitor, WordPress.com charges $13 a domain.
From this I got curious and tapped the hyperlink for
WordPress.com. There I found a bit more detail on the matter. It actually IS a
free blog service, BUT you can upgrade with paid perks and subscriptions. Cool
fact: WordPress averages one million new articles published daily and two million
comments. I read through the article and found that Adnan Oktar was able to
block the site in Turkey, saying that the site contained libelous material on
him that the site was unwilling to remove.
I then tapped the hyperlink for Adnan Oktar. I learned that
he is an Islamic creationist writer under the pen name Harun Yahya. What I
learned wasn’t really pleasant. He not only denied evolution in his writing,
but he also denied the Holocaust. He stated in one of his works that “the death
of some Jews due to the typhus plague during the war and the famine towards the
end of the war caused by the defeat of the Germans.”
After hearing that, I no longer wanted to read more of him
and tapped evolution just to bring myself back to reality *and to also partly
study for a biology quiz coming up*. After brushing up on what I had already
knew, I also learned a few new things. One of the most interesting things that I
came across was that evolution was a pre-Darwinian concept, but no one could
justify its means (this mean was later found to be natural selection). Cool
fact: Darwin’s own grandfather, Erasmus Darwin used the term proposing that all
warm-blooded animals could have descended from a single microorganism.
I found it funny that I went from one blogging site to another,
then to read about a creationists unrealistic and conspiracist viewpoints, then
finally ending at my go-to biology study guide for the next week.
↓This picture basically summed up my reaction to this wikitrail. ↓
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