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The Conservapedia on Evolution

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Not sure if anyone has seen this but apparently the Conservapedia wants to be the Fox News of wikipedias. The entry on Evolution is fairly entertaining, it claims abiogensis as part of the theory of evolution and that it violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

[nfurl]http://www.conservapedia.com/Evolution[/nfurl]

Heh, their creationism article states that the Dover trial had "many provable errors" and was cut and pasted from the ACLU.

[nfurl]http://www.conservapedia.com/Creationism[/nfurl]

Of course they don't list the errors, or even the cut/paste sections.
 
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Do I even want to know?

I just know it's going to give me a headache.
 
Taffer said:
Do I even want to know?

I just know it's going to give me a headache.
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Yeah, I don't think I can take much more wandering around the site. Do not read the article on Africa! I think a 3rd grader wrote it.

From their World History Lecture One
[nfurl]http://www.conservapedia.com/World_History_Lecture_One[/nfurl]
We can also extrapolate backwards from modern populations to estimate that only about 300 million people existed in the world at the time of Christ, and extrapolating backwards further yields only one family in the year 3300 B.C
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History books speculate at length about “prehistory”, which predates writing. But there is no reliable evidence to support this speculation, and not worth spending time on. There is no reason to think that man existed for thousands of years without ever expressing himself in written form.
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kevin said:
Do not read the article on Africa! I think a 3rd grader wrote it.
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I think you're unfair to third graders. Surely they would not start an article with:
"The continent south of Europe and south-east[citation needed] of Asia."
Gotta love the way someone inserted that "citation needed" though. :D
 
From the site:

Tired of the LIBERAL BIAS every time you search on Google and a Wikipedia page appears? Now it's time for the Conservatives to get our voice out on the internet!

Conservapedia began in November 2006, as the class project for a World History class of 58 advanced homeschooled and college-bound students meeting in New Jersey.

Conservapedia has since grown enormously, including contributors nationwide. Conservapedia already has over one-half the number of entries as the Oxford Dictionary of World History. Conservapedia is rapidly becoming one of the largest and most reliable online educational resources of its kind.
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I for one welcome our new home-schooled history student overlords.
 
Not science but the George Washington article says he was unanimously elected president of the USA. He didn't even get all the electoral votes in the first election. I believe he was unanimously elected president of the constitutional convention. That's a whole different thing.

That violates their "first commandment of conservapedia".
Everything you post must be true and verifiable
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[nfurl]http://www.conservapedia.com/The_Conservapedia_Commandments[/nfurl]
 
Well, Kevin, perhaps you could explain how Evil-ution resulted in the tree octopus.

Unequivocal evidence of a designer.

;)

I'm learning a LOT from this site.
 
"Conservapaedie?" Conservapedophilia? Errrmmmm, hmmph.

What, the truth is negotiable? The truth should perhaps be fair and balanced? That's what they've been trying to convince everyone of for the last ten years. It's a mess now, and everyone can see it. I suspect this particular one has a very short half-life- which implies that it's highly radioactive.

I'm a proud part of the reality-based community. I beg you consider the alternative.
 
I just found this site and had to resurrect this thread to quote this esay on evolution.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Essay:Motivations_for_the_Theory_of_Evolution

Finacial reasons for the conspiracy of evolution:
While judicial interpretations of the Establishment Clause prohibit any funding of religious arguments, positions or beliefs, the Theory of Evolution enjoys millions of dollars in annual funding by government.

This means that millions of persons, from university professors to graduate students to government researchers to public school teachers, receive paychecks funded in whole or in part by continued support for the Theory of Evolution. If Congress or the President embraced a view that the theory were false, and cut off that funding, then the paychecks of these thousands of persons would decrease or disappear entirely.

In addition, non-profits groups such as the ACLU rely on private donors to defend and promote the Theory of Evolution. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute is another non-profit that expends, and presumably raises, substantial monies by promoting the teaching of the Theory of Evolution. The salaries of individuals such organizations could decline if the theory were declared to be false. In litigation over Intelligent Design in Dover, Pennsylvania, the court ordered a payment of over $2 million to the lawyers who defended the Theory of Evolution, and payments under such order contribute directly to the salaries of attorneys and staff workers at such firms.

Many graduate students in anthropology and related fields need topics and funding for doctoral work, and the Theory of Evolution fills that need. If the theory were recognized to be false, then these graduate students would be left without work and jobs.

The financial incentives may exceed $1 billion annually, and will cause a greater support for the theory, particularly among academics and government workers benefiting from the money, than would exist in the absence of these incentives.
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That is so sad.
 
Huh? I thought those who believed in evil-ution were "godless commies" and wouldn't want filthy capitalist profit? ;)
 
I love it when people talk like nobody's able to tell if Patriot Bible University is really a diploma mill. If I wasn't so lazy, I'd go buy a Doctorate.
 
This may be a derail, but Patriot University seems to have done a bit of a revision. It now takes roughly the same # of courses to get a degree from there as from a real university, although the prices are still lower.
 
Yes, but each course is a single-sided form with 5 multi-guess questions, each of which look like this:

Q3. Do you want to go to heaven?

A. Not really.
B. I'll consider it if you define heaven for me.
C. ====> Hell yeah, praise you Jeeebus! <=====
D. What was the question again?
E. None of the above.
F. All of the above.
 
quixotecoyote said:
This may be a derail, but Patriot University seems to have done a bit of a revision. It now takes roughly the same # of courses to get a degree from there as from a real university, although the prices are still lower.
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Do you have a citation for that?

I suppose that the issue will depend on the definition of a course. Patriot's not being an accredited school allows them to define "course" any way they want.
 
kevin said:
Not science but the George Washington article says he was unanimously elected president of the USA. He didn't even get all the electoral votes in the first election. I believe he was unanimously elected president of the constitutional convention. That's a whole different thing.

That violates their "first commandment of conservapedia".


[nfurl]http://www.conservapedia.com/The_Conservapedia_Commandments[/nfurl]
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That all depends on how you define true and verifiable.

They are going for the real truth not the one corrupted by reality and its liberal bias. Think of them in a more gnostic light.
 
Ladewig said:
I just found this site and had to resurrect this thread to quote this esay on evolution.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Essay:Motivations_for_the_Theory_of_Evolution

Finacial reasons for the conspiracy of evolution:


That is so sad.
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I just wonder why they don't continue it to the religious germ theory of disease. It runs counter to proper religious ideas of all disease being the work of demons or punishment from god, so it is a religion, and so the FDA is a religious institution funded by the government.
 
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