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murdoch Donating Member (658 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-10-10 11:04 PM
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Is this the dumbest Conservapedia article?
In case you don't know, Conservapedia is the wiki encyclopedia conservatives have put together because "Wikipedia is too liberal" (strange how the Ayn Rand worshipping millionaire who started Wikipedia, and who has said conservative " Hayek's work on...theory is central to my own thinking about how to manage the Wikipedia project" is too liberal for them, but...) I have seen a lot of dumb articles on there, but I think I have found the dumbest yet.

We know what they think about climate science and evolutionary biology. Here they are trying to take some potshots at Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Of course, they give no other testable and reproducible theory of their own. One of their counter-examples is a passage in the Bible where Jesus heals someone from miles away.


http://www.conservapedia.com/Counterexamples_to_Relativity

The theory of relativity is a mathematical system that allows no exceptions. It is heavily promoted by liberals who like its encouragement of relativism and its tendency to mislead people in how they view the world. Here is a list of 20 counterexamples: any one of them shows that the theory is incorrect.

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9. The action-at-a-distance by Jesus, described in John 4:46-54.
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-10-10 11:05 PM
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1. I'll have to quote the fictional John Conner on this one....
"ahhh, All of them, I think."
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cameozalaznick Donating Member (624 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-10-10 11:13 PM
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2. Reminds me of the quote about everyone being entitled to their own opinions...
But not entitled to their own facts.

Attributed to Daniel Moynihan
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-10-10 11:19 PM
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3. I think at least half those articles are made by folks on our side to fuck with their heads.
The morans are too stupid to figure it out.
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-10-10 11:25 PM
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4. Poe's law & corollary
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-11-10 12:04 PM
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5. Well, at least they didn't call it a "Jewish theory" ...
and mark it as "translated from the original Hebrew".

I guess they're not *exactly* like the Nazis after all.
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