There’s a new wiki-based encyclopedia on the web, and this one’s for the Right. Conservapedia was created in response to the perceived bias in Wikipedia:
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.[...]
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”.
The project was created by a “large, advanced group” of New Jersey homeschoolers in November 2006 — as if I needed another reason to like it!
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March 3, 2007 at 5:04 pm
It will have the same result as Wikipedia. All the litle onanists living in their moms’ basements editing and reverse-editing.
March 6, 2007 at 7:18 am
Really, and you want your son to learn this truth about “Genes”
Although the gene is the fundamental unit of heredity, changes in genes (so-called “evolution”) cannot explain the differences between species, which require an Intelligent Designer
(one among many such examples)
March 6, 2007 at 10:31 am
I’ve got no problem reconciling science with the existence of an Intelligent Designer. I do have a problem with those who believe the two are mutually exclusive.
March 6, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Suffers from a “systematic bias” all its own. Take Conservapedia’s entry on the Theory of Evolution. Biased doesn’t begin to describe it.
In fact, in order to support its bias, it even quotes a book from 1977!
Take a look at the Transitional Vertebrate Fossils FAQ for explanations and descriptions of transitional fossil records.
I find anything that has to CLAIM it isn’t biased, is most definitely the opposite.
I don’t subscribe to the full Theory of Evolution, but I refuse to close my mind to new discoveries all because it doesn’t fit within a narrow view of the universe.