For my first OP behold... Conservapedia .. let the howling begin

[Jonathan50]

No mere words of mine can possibly add to the exquisite delight that awaits you, so therefore without further ado I present the font of all conservative knowledge, Conservapedia.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page

Welcome to Conservapedia
A conservative encyclopedia you can trust.

Conservapedia has over 3,800 educational, clean and concise entries on historical, scientific, legal, and economic topics, as well as more than 350 lectures and term lists. There have been over 468,000 page views and over 15,400 page edits. Already Conservapedia has become one of the largest user-controlled free encyclopedias on the internet. This site is growing rapidly.

Conservapedia is a much-needed alternative to Wikipedia, which is increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American. On Wikipedia, many of the dates are provided in the anti-Christian "C.E." instead of "A.D.", which Conservapedia uses. Christianity receives no credit for the great advances and discoveries it inspired, such as those of the Renaissance. Read a list of many Examples of Bias in Wikipedia.

Conservapedia is an online resource and meeting place where we favor Christianity and America. Conservapedia has easy-to-use indexes to facilitate review of topics. You will much prefer using Conservapedia compared to Wikipedia if you want concise answers free of "political correctness".

[Maat]

1. Go to that site ..

if you want to be dumbed-down, I guess.

[Dinger]

2. ?

WTF?

[americanstranger]

3. I noticed something interesting about that site yesterday.

Besides the obvious comedy gold, I mean.

On the page that lists the instances of bias on Wikipedia, the number one item is this:


Wikipedia allows the use of B.C.E. instead of B.C. and C.E. instead of A.D. The dates are based on the birth of Jesus, so why pretend otherwise? Conservapedia is Christian-friendly and exposes the CE deception.


But when I went looking for more topics to mock, the topic index showed something completely unexpected.

Screen cap here:

http://www.blah3.com/article.php?story=20070224162556550

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[depakid]

17. "the Ultimate Snark Machine?"

Six years ago, I wouldn't have even questioned that. Unfortunately these days, my parody and satire meters are way out of calibration.

[americanstranger]

26. I've re-assessed that conclusion, BTW.

Considering who owns the domain:

Registrant:
Andrew Schlafly
521 Fifth Ave. - 17th Floor
New York, New York 10175
United States

Registered through: EasyDomain.com
Domain Name: CONSERVAPEDIA.COM
Created on: 28-Aug-06
Expires on: 29-Aug-07
Last Updated on:

Administrative Contact:
Schlafly, Andrew [e-mail]
521 Fifth Ave. - 17th Floor
New York, New York 10175
United States
[phone]

Technical Contact:
Schlafly, Andrew [e-mail]
521 Fifth Ave. - 17th Floor
New York, New York 10175
United States
[phone]

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You guessed it - Phyllis 'Eagle Forum' Schlafly's kid.

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[depakid]

28. Are you sure that's who it is?

A really good snarker would have messed with the WHOIS information, too....

[AZBlue]

4. "A conservative encyclopedia you can trust."

A contradiction in terms.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. What a disappointment! Typed in Rush Limpballs (well, the correct way)...

the page does not exist! So I spend two seconds there, put in one of the most offensive right wing blowhards, and they haven't even created his shrine yet. If I were Freepers, I'd ask for my browsing time back!!!!

Life gets stranger every day...

[silverweb]

6. Oh, boy.

Bookmarking.
This ought to be as much fun as reading the fundie movie reviews. :rofl:

[originalpckelly]

9. I know, I'm going to be having a little fun with them.

:P

[FVZA_Colonel]

7. Didn't someone once vandalize GWB's page to make it say that

he was a former member of the Blue Man Group?

[originalpckelly]

8. France:

"A country in Europe. Thrived during the middle ages. The capitol is Paris, France, which was founded in the Middle Ages."

I guess it's not doing too well these days.

And this from one of the lectures, this is funny:
"This week we cover the great ancient empires in the East: India and China. This requires learning about many new religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism. Then we conclude by discussing the rise of Christianity.

Ask yourself at the outset: why learn about any religion other than Christianity? That is a good question to ask. Many Christians could conclude that, having found their faith, they see no reason to study non-Christian religions.

There are some valid reasons to studying other religions, however. Christian missionaries, for example, need to understand the religions of the peoples they are attempting to convert. World leaders and travelers should understand the different religious views of peoples they encounter, even if they are not trying to convert them. In business it is important to know the values and beliefs of people with whom you deal.

It is possible that learning about other religions, and how they differ from Christianity, can strengthen one’s appreciation of Christianity. It is also fascinating to see how distant peoples struggled with religious issues without the benefit of Christianity and came to certain conclusions about life, morals, and unseen truth.

So let us proceed:"

And this:
"Christianity differs from other major religions in its peaceful evangelism, spreading its truths through freedom of speech. Christianity is unlike religions that lack an evangelical component, such as Judaism and Hinduism, and Christianity also differs from Islam in the manner in which force is used."

Yeah, tell that to the victims of the inquisition and the crusades.

[originalpckelly]

10. And God:

"God is the creator of the universe in monotheistic religions such Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.<1> In the Christian and Jewish faiths, His creation of man is described in the Book of Genesis.

It's claimed that Christianity, Islam, and Judaism worship the same God in different ways. This claim is regarded by some as a way to convert Jews and Christians to Islam, since it supports the idea that Abrahamic religion has "grown" from Judaism to Christianity to Islam.<1> However, many are skeptical of this idea.<2>

Common powers attributed to God include omnipotence(the ability to do anything), omniscience(the ability to know anything) although even that level of detail is not common throughout all monotheists. Many believers in God also believe that he punishes the wicked and rewards the righteous in some afterlife and variants of this theme are found in all the Abrahamic faiths."

[originalpckelly]

12. And evolution is a doosey:

http://www.conservapedia.com/Evolution

"The Theory of Evolution, introduced by scientist and naturalist Charles Darwin in his book On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, published in 1859, is a scientific theory that explains the process of evolution via natural selection. The basic principle behind natural selection, states that in the struggle for life, some organisms in a given population will be better suited to their particular environment and thus have a reproductive advantage, increasing the representation of their particular traits over time.
Contents


* 1 Definition of the word
* 2 Evolutionary Position and the Field of Biology
* 3 The Fossil Record and the Evolutionary Position
* 4 Evolution Violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics
* 5 See also

Definition of the word

The word "evolution," in its strictest sense, simply means "change over time." In current political debate, the word "evolution" has come to stand for five different concepts which are related. 1. Change of animal and plant species over time. 2. Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, a specific hypothesis to explain how animal and plant species change over time, 3. Descent of man from non-human ancestors, a hypothesis (not advanced by Darwin in his Origin of Species, but elucidated in his later book Descent of Man, 4. A-biological origin of life from non-living chemical precursors (abiogenesis), and 5. Billion-year time scale for the age of the Earth. It is possible in principle to separate these concepts; for example, a person could accept that animal and plant species evolve (i.e., change) over time, while rejecting the specific theory of evolution proposed by Darwin, or could accept that animal and plants have evolved by natural selection since the time of Noah, but reject the billion-year age of the Earth. In practice, however, the concepts are usually grouped and accepted or rejected as a whole.
Evolutionary Position and the Field of Biology

Evolutionist have no real evidence that macroevolution occurs and there is no consensus on how it allegedly occurs as can be seen below:

"When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: "It happened." Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first sight must seem rather odd." - Simon Conway Morris (palaeontologist, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University, UK), "Evolution: Bringing Molecules into the Fold," Cell, Vol. 100, pp.1-11, January 7, 2000, p.11

"If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is flourishing today as it seldom has flourished in the past. For biologists collectively are less agreed upon the details of evolutionary mechanics than they were a scant decade ago. Superficially, it seems as if we know less about evolution than we did in 1959, the centennial year of Darwin's on the Origin of Species." (Niles Eldredge, "Time Frames: The Rethinking of Darwinian Evolution and the Theory of Punctuated Equilibria," Simon & Schuster: New York NY, 1985, p14). <1>
The Fossil Record and the Evolutionary Position

Creationist can cite material showing that there is no real fossil evidence for the macroevolutionary position and that the fossil record supports creationism:

"In any case, no real evolutionist, whether gradualist or punctuationist, uses the fossil record as evidence in favour of the theory of evolution as opposed to special creation." Mark Ridley, 'Who doubts evolution?', New Scientist, vol. 90, 25 June 1981, p. 831 <2>

"...I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favour of special creation." - E.J.H. Corner, Prof of Botany, Cambridge University, England. E.J. H. Corner, “Evolution” in Anna M. MacLeod and L. S. Cobley (eds.), Contemporary Botanical Thought (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1961), p. 97 <3>

"We then move right off the register of objective truth into those fields of presumed biological science, like extrasensory perception or the interpretation of man's fossil history, where to the faithful anything is possible - and where the ardent believer is sometimes able to believe several contradictory things at the same time." Lord Solly Zuckerman (paleonthropologist of Birmingham University in England), Beyond the Ivory Tower, New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1970, p. 19. <4>

"Fossil evidence of human evolutionary history is fragmentary and open to various interpretations. Fossil evidence of chimpanzee evolution is absent altogether". Henry Gee (evolutionist), “Return to the Planet of the Apes,” Nature, Vol. 412, 12 July 2001, p. 131.

For more quotes regarding the fossil record please see: Fossil record quotes
Evolution Violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Evolution does in fact lower the entropy of the sum of the living DNA on this planet. The mechanism used by evolution to lower entropy is the collection and storage of information about trait survivability on strands of molecules called DNA. The theory of Evolution says that this information collects naturally through non-random selection from offspring variation. "

[ladym55]

11. ohmigod

That's all I can say. Wow. Peaceful evangelism. Sure. Uh-HUH.

Yep, let's learn about all them pagan religions so we can convert them and bring them to Jesus.

Oh, my. Just what we need--another source of stupidity! :eyes:

[originalpckelly]

13. I wonder how many kids in America have to use this...

or will some day.

Poor ignorant bastards. When people are that dumb, you just have to pity them.

[Solon]

39. Contradicted by another page of their's no less!

http://www.conservapedia.com/Hypatia_of_Alexandria

It was in the spirit of this edict that Theophilus ordered many of the stores of knowledge in Alexandria destroyed, and many historians agree that he was also responsible for the famed burning of the great Library of Alexandria. This instilled a tremendous sense of fear in the cowardly and seditious philosophers and astronomers of the city and, fearing for their lives, many of them left. Sensing that the presence of God was upon that bastion of blasphemy, the pious Cyril of Alexandria began to incite mobs to, in accordance with Deuteronomy 17:2-17:5, stone the heretics who would draw worship away from God in order to idolize literature and mathematics.

It was one of these mobs that set upon Hypatia of Alexandria at the behest of the noble and pure Cyril of Alexandria. They stripped the witch of her clothing and bludgeoned her with clay pots, and then dragged her through the streets to one of the temples, where they used the shards of the broken pottery to flay her alive. A fire was built to purify her heretical flesh, and her twitching dismembered limbs were thrown in to create a pleasing scent unto the Lord.

John of Nikiu related later that "all the people surrounded the patriarch Cyril and named him 'the new Theophilus'; for he had destroyed the last remains of idolatry in the city". It was for this act of purification that Cyril of Alexandria was later appointed to the position of Doctor of the Church and canonized as St. Cyril of Alexandria.

These guys are fucking out of their minds.

[Hosnon]

43. Paris was founded in the Middle Ages? Well, damn...learn something

knew everyday.

:sarcasm:

[LTR]

14. Well, it sure looks like I'll learn alot here

"Random link" took me to this page:

Pancho Villa

Pancho Villa was one of the most important generals in the Mexican Revolution.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Pancho_Villa

Can I use that as a cite for a term paper?

:rofl:

[silverweb]

15. OMG, did you read the "About" blurb?

It was a homeschool project!

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."

When facts disagree with your beliefs, just write your own texts and websites to affirm your fantasy versions of things!

:rofl:

[americanstranger]

16. Even better - who's the owner?

Phyllis Schafly's kid, Andrew.

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[silverweb]

19. HAHAHA!

I didn't see that! Where did you find it?

[americanstranger]

24. Actually, my wife went looking.

From Register.com's WHOIS search:

Registrant:
Andrew Schlafly
521 Fifth Ave. - 17th Floor
New York, New York 10175
United States

Registered through: EasyDomain.com
Domain Name: CONSERVAPEDIA.COM
Created on: 28-Aug-06
Expires on: 29-Aug-07
Last Updated on:

Administrative Contact:
Schlafly, Andrew [e-mail]
521 Fifth Ave. - 17th Floor
New York, New York 10175
United States
[phone]

Technical Contact:
Schlafly, Andrew [e-mail]
521 Fifth Ave. - 17th Floor
New York, New York 10175
United States
[phone]


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[silverweb]

46. Your wife's a genius.

Thank her for me!

[HuffleClaw]

40. 'advanced homeschooled' is an oxymoron if i ever heard one

wow.

[silverweb]

45. Yeah, no shit.

:rofl:

The whole site is a laugh riot... until one remembers that people actually take it seriously, and then it's just pathetic.

[HuskiesHowls]

18. It would be nice if they had any idea what "facts" are...

Just a quick look at one entry: "Bacon's Rebellion was a revolt in 1676 by former indentured servants in colonial Virginia. It was led by an English immigrant, Nathanael Bacon."

Then, you go here: http://www.nps.gov/archive/colo/Jthanout/BacRebel.html
and find out that he was actually some well-off young kid who didn't want to work, but wanted to kill Indians. It had nothing to do with about indentured servants!!!

A little research (less than 5 minutes) can do marvelous things!!

[Jonathan50]

20. Afrika Corps

http://www.conservapedia.com/Afrika_Korps

The Afrika Korps led by the brilliant Nazi Field Marshall Erwin Rommel were very feared. They routed the British Army and almost took Egypt from the British. They were finally defeated when America launched Operation Torch and forced them to surrender in 1973. Embracing as they did the principles of evolutionism and Darwinism, it is unsurprising that they believed in the inferiority of their countrymen.

[jakpalmer]

41. N/T

:rofl:

[LeftishBrit]

44. 1973????????

[Zorra]

21. I "researched" the Salem witch trials. Here's what it said:

May-October 1692

In the town of Salem, in Massachusetts Bay Colony, several girls who were listening to the voodoo tales of a West Indian slave, Tibuta, said they were possessed by devils. They then proceeded in saying the names of three innocent women. These women were brought to trial and, under pressure, falsely stated the names of others who were working together to posses the girls. These three women, along with sixteen others, were falsely accused of witchcraft and were hung. Nearly 150 were imprisoned.


Later on, people began to doubt there really were witches. The colonial legislature took back their accusations, and the trials were stopped.

Retrieved from "http://www.conservapedia.com/Salem_Witch_Trials"

How very informative.

Not.
:rofl:

[Little Wing]

22. Notice everything's written like a 6th grade homework assignment

The Aztecs were an empire in South America. Cortez showed up and killed lots of them. They liked gold very much.

[EFerrari]

23. Conservapedia is an online resource and meeting place where we favor Christianity and America.

Well, no. You can't do both.

Fascist scum.

[Jonathan50]

25. The site is experiencing temporary technical difficulties

Apparently too many homeschoolers are logging on during the squalid and foetid leftist masturbatory celebration that is the Academy Awards.

[americanstranger]

27. All that stupid is clogging up the tubes. n/t

[Yukari Yakumo]

30. That, and...

now that we've noticed it, we're all busy creating havoc by making wildly extravagant changes.

[Jonathan50]

29. Operation Barbarossa

I'm overfreakingwhelmed with information :)

http://www.conservapedia.com/Operation_Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa was Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.

[ironflange]

31. It looks like trolls are running rampant in that place

Hold on, wait for me!

[FVZA_Colonel]

33. Well, it was Something Awful's Awful Link of the Day a couple days back.

And when that happens... whoever runs that site best be prepared.

[candidate]

32. We already have a conservative encyclopedia

It's called Mein Kampf.

Same basic deal; Godless liberals are destroying the nation, people are turning their backs on traditional moral values, we need to have a spirital rebirth, our enemies must all be wiped out without mercy, America must be a pure state, blah blah blah.

Can someone please add information on Ronald Reagan backing Saddam Hussein, Al Qaeda, bin Laden, the Iranians, and the Contra terrorists to his page?

[Solon]

34. These guys make my head hurt...

I was just looking at this http://www.conservapedia.com/World_History_Lecture_Three]">page, and this leaped out at me:

China, like India, is significant because it has so many people. But there the similarities end. There is no Hinduism in China. There is very little ethnic diversity in China, in contrast to India and many Western countries today. Christianity has struggled to convert the country, and only about 1 out of 9 Chinese are Christian. That number is due to courageous efforts in the face of much governmental persecution of religion.

China has always been isolated by geographic protections. The highest mountains in the world separate it from India; vast amounts of semi-desert land separated it from Mesopotamia. In the south flowed the Yangtze river for 3000 miles, navigable from the sea for half of its course. In the north was the Yellow river, known for its disastrous tendency to flood.

This is the introductory page, the actually 'pedia entry for China is a one paragraph blurb and a list of their inventions, like gunpowder. But seriously, "very little ethnic diversity"? Are they serious? Even I, an ignorant American, knows this isn't true They have literally hundreds of ethnic groups within the nation, over four language groups, and dozens of languages, and they lack diversity? I guess, because these flabby white guys think they all look the same, they actually ARE the same, stupid conservatives.

[Warren DeMontague]

35. It's good. They can collect all the bullshit in one place. nt

[EFerrari]

36. LOL

:rofl:

[petronius]

37. "Brazil - A lie propagated by godless hedonistic liberals."

:rofl:

I'm learning so much I didn't know from that site - thank God for Conservapedia!! :rofl:

[Bronyraurus]

38. That's pretty dumb.

I've found wikipedia to be balanced.

[Jonathan50]

42. Found another really cool entry....

http://www.conservapedia.com/Unicorn

The existence of unicorns is controversial. Secular opinion is that they are mythical. However, they are referred to in the Bible nine times,<1> which provides an unimpeachable de facto argument for their once having been in existence.

In the original texts, unicorns go by the Hebrew name Re-em whereas the Greek Septuagint used the name Monokeros.<2> Unicorn itself is Latin. All three names mean "one horn".
Remains of a Re-em that perished in the Great Flood

While popularly characterized as a horned member of the horse baramin, it is likely that the unicorn was actually quite unhorselike. One recognized theory is that the unicorn was actually the rhinoceros,<1> however a growing number of Creation researchers are theorizing that the unicorn was actually a member of the ceratopsian baramin.<2>

Post-Noachian references<1> to unicorns have led some researchers to argue that unicorns are still alive today. At the very least, it is likely that they were taken aboard the Ark prior to the Great Flood.

[americanstranger]

47. Wow! An 'unimpeachable de facto argument???'

Well, that settles it, then. Unicorns really were real!

I think they passed out really, really good drugs to the morons who wrote that crap.

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[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

48. Holy Shit, WE NEED TO START A SITE LIKE THAT!!!!

Oh wait, that's right... we have one already. Best source of factual political information on the web in fact.

LONG LIVE DU!!!! :toast:

[Liberal In Texas]

49. Check out "liberal"

They claim that American Heritage Dictionary says that one of it's definitions is:

1 8. Obsolete political system; Morally unrestrained; licentious.

and goes on to say
Definition #8 is the most relevant in modern times.
...and then cites a link to dictionary.com

Now, if you follow their link you see:
1 h. Obsolete Morally unrestrained; licentious.

THEY'VE ADDED "political system" and TAKEN THE ITALICS OUT of "obsolete" in order to change the meaning and give it their own bias.
(And oddly, they changed the numbering from 1.h to 1.8)

lying morons
:rofl: