There is a saying on USENET: any sufficiently advanced parody is indistinguishable from real stupidity. (You could try looking at
Korpela’s Laws of USENET for items in a similar vein.)
It’s this basic idea that gives us the (not always so obvious)
parody Landover Baptist Church.
Or you could read about a brave paleontologist who uncovered the fossil remains of a human being eaten by an Allosaurus (see this page for the explanation). But sometimes you uncover stuff that’s
every bit as absurd, and yet seems to be entirely for real, like

OBJECTIVE: Creation Education: Creation Science Fair 2001

Sweet spirit of Cthulhu preserve us…