1. Senator calls for answer on creation of universe

Comment #23955 by Scramble on March 3, 2007 at 6:13 pm

Talking of Conservapedia, has anyone checked it out? It is so parochial, it beggars belief! Do they really imagine everyone speaks and spells American? Is everyone in the whole world Christian? This site panders only to the middle-American view, and regards anyone else as, perhaps, imaginary :-)
I wanted to edit the section on CE/BCE, so I clicked on "Login/Create Account", but found there was no way of actually creating an account, only to login with an existing account - perhaps these are only given to friends of the webmaster. With no access to edit/correct entries, Conservapedia have demonstrated their true nature. Narrow, bigoted and closed to scary views and ideas outside the conservative, middle-America, Christian-Right (I did notice that their entry for Jesus neglects to say he was Jewish! :-)). I guess folks get the 'pedia they deserve, although it scares me that parents and teachers may point children to this site, fearing they may become 'polluted' by reality. So sad!
Oh, by the way, check out this slip-up on their Jesus page. You would have expected them, of all people, to know better! :-)
"...the name Jesus almost always refers specifically to Jesus of Nazareth, believed by Christian followers to be God's dad..." Ha! even a heathen like myself spotted this right away - I guess the truely religious never actually bother to READ!!!

2. Britons unconvinced on evolution

Comment #18745 by Scramble on January 22, 2007 at 6:25 pm

A worrying statistic, but it is a year old (26th Jan 2006). I hope there has been some change since!