[Mars]

Rational Wiki exists to make fun of Conservapedia

EDIT:

It appears to be strongly biased in the other direction in some cases.

[NGTM-1R]

Conservapedia is a Wikipedia style online encyclopedia, written from an American Conservative viewpoint. The encyclopedia focuses on religious and political topics, and is edited by predominantly American Catholic Protestant Conservatives.

Fixed.

[Nuke]

countless religions, one scientific method. discuss.

*runs away really really fast*

[NGTM-1R]

The thing I love about people who argue "it must be the Catholics' fault!" is that Catholicism is significantly more moderate than a lot of Protestant sects, but there are a lot more Catholics then Protestants, so it must be the Catholics' fault.

Well, frankly put, that's a load of crap, because American politics has been dominated by Protestants since the beginning. Like Judiasm, they are few in numbers but large in influence and loud in their speaking.

[Mongoose]

Exactly.  There's a rather prevalent history of anti-Catholicism in this country, even going back as recently as the election of John F. Kennedy (who was essentially forced to reassure voters that he would not run the country as a puppet of the Vatican).  And nothing in any of the pages I browsed through looked anything remotely like the teachings I've been exposed to as a lifelong Catholic.  That's pure evangelical fundamentalism right there.

[karajorma]

The following article is about the term alien as most commonly used. For the term applying to hypothesized other forms of life in the universe see: Extraterrestrial life

An alien is a person who is a member of another family, race, or nation than the people among whom he or she lives.

I guess I hang out too much on Sci-fi boards then.

  Extent of the Creation

The presence of extraterrestrial microbes on one or more of the other planets in our solar system (most likely Mars) does excite some fear in Christian quarters. But not all Christians harbor such fear, and even young earth creationists are quite confident that they could explain such a finding. For example, if the hydroplate theory is correct and a slurry of mud from the Great Flood traveled to Mars and poured itself out upon it, then such a slurry would almost certainly contain microbes.

I wonder if they're going to try the same explanation if life is ever found around another star.

[Mars]

Really fast mud?

[karajorma]

Well at least they don't get everything wrong.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Pascal%27s_wager

Worth remembering next time someone is foolish enough to try to use it in a religion debate here. I'm actually quite surprised they got it right considering how often it does turn up here.

[Mefustae]

Well at least they don't get everything wrong.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Pascal%27s_wager

Worth remembering next time someone is foolish enough to try to use it in a religion debate here. I'm actually quite surprised they got it right considering how often it does turn up here.

A good gesture, but doesn't quite cancel out the faster-than-light space mud.

[Mars]

Even if they are ID airheads... why couldn't God just come up with a few microbes on Mars? If God could only create life on Earth he wouldn't be a very impressive God, would he.

Why the space mud?

[colecampbell666]

Cause everyone loves space mud.

How could anyone come up with something like that? Oh wait, I know.

[NGTM-1R]

Ever since this thread started I've been getting a bunch of Christian Singles ads, dammit.

[Blue Lion]

So have I. It's better than the jerk businessman ad though... kinda.

[NGTM-1R]

Certainly more visually appealing.

[Kie99]

WARNING!!

[Blue Lion]

Oh no! Underwear!

http://www.conservapedia.com/Dragon_Ball_Z

 

http://www.conservapedia.com/Miranda_v._Arizona

Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (June 13th, 1966), was a landmark decision by the Warren Court requiring the police to warn suspects of their rights before conducting custodial interrogations. These warnings, known as the "Miranda warnings," include:

    the right to remain silent

    the right to have an attorney present

    the right to have an attorney appointed if desired

    the right to know that anything said can and will be used against the accused

Conservatives objected strenuously to this decision, which freed many criminals who had not received these warnings. Some historians have recently cited Miranda for a "complete collapse in society."[Citation Needed]

A majority of the Rehnquist Court was on record with the opinion that the U.S. Constitution does not require a reading of the Miranda warning. But in Dickerson v. United States, 530 U.S. 428 (2000), a 7-2 opinion written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist upheld the Miranda warnings by saying that "the warnings have become part of our national culture." Justice Antonin Scalia railed against this decision in dissent, but the Miranda warnings remain mandatory to this day.

[colecampbell666]

Do any of you have problems with "Site not Found"? I get it most of the time I click one of your links.

[BlueFlames]

Do any of you have problems with "Site not Found"? I get it most of the time I click one of your links.

In this case, I'm not so sure I'd call that a problem.

[colecampbell666]

One of the Conservapedia links in the thread, thank you very much.

[MP-Ryan]

One of the Conservapedia links in the thread, thank you very much.

I think he got that,  Again, don't know if that's a problem so much as a solution if applied across the entire Internet =)