Is the article a satire/parody?

[Boojatta]

The article is available via this link:
The Creation/Evolution Debate: Education v. Indoctrination By Guyla Mills

I didn't read the whole thing and nothing in it struck me as laugh-out-loud funny, but I imagine that if one took an article written for Landover Baptist and edited out the most entertaining parts, then one would produce something like the article at the above link.

I don't recommend reading the entire article (unless you want to demonstrate that it is a satire/parody), so I will point out this part that you might otherwise not see:

Teaching evolution as fact is not intellectually honest. This indoctrinates and immerses students in false information, and denies them the opportunity to become critical thinkers. For example, a typical test question reads: The age of the earth is: a) 4.6 billion years old; b) 4 million years old; c) 6 thousand years old. However, an objective test question would be: Most scientists theorize that the age of the earth is a) 4.6 billion years old; b) 4 million years; c) 6 thousand years old.

[Occam Bandage]

1. It is impossible to effectively satire, parody, or otherwise lampoon religious fundamentalists.

It cannot be done. No matter what reducto ad absurdum you may dream up, they will find a way to be earnestly more absurd.

[cosmik debris]

2. Or as Poe's Law puts it:

http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Poe's_Law

“Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

[Silent3]

4. Better link

http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Poe%27s_Law

(%27 for the apostrophe instead of \')

[cosmik debris]

5. Oops. Thanks for the correction,

(How did I screw up a "copy and paste" link?)

Oh well.

[Silent3]

6. It's a curious error, which makes me wonder if some sort of unwanted automatic...

...and supposedly helpful copy/paste change was made by some piece of software you were using. The apostrophe is technically a safe character to use in URLs, but a lot of software prefers to encode most punctuation characters in a special way to avoid parsing problems. The standard way to encode a character is %XX, where XX is the hexadecimal code for the character.

There's a completely different standard for encoding special characters in programming languages like C and Java, and that's to put a backslash in front of it as a way of saying, "Look out! Special character ahead!". That standard is completely inappropriate for web links, however, but maybe some piece of software you were using wasn't designed knowing that.

[cosmik debris]

7. I repeated my steps and it failed again

http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Poe's_Law

The text I see when I type is correct, but when it is posted it changes. The software may be on DU.???

I arrived at that page from google, but when I arrive at that page from the rational wiki home page I have this link in the URL.

http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Poe%27s_law

So I think you are right, it is a coding translation error, but I'm not sure it is on my machine.

[Towlie]

3. The article is a day late! We have Ida now.

It's all over. Let this picture be spread to the four corners of the flat Earth: