Conservapedia: My Take

I examine the viability of conservapedia as a source of information.

To clarify my opening statement more, I want to make it clear that when I labeled conservapedia a news source and not an encyclopedia, I was implying that their spin will vary based on the expediencies demanded by the issues at hand in the political realm.

I got cut off as I was explaining that Plato was in fact a theist and a creationist. In the Phaedo, an early dialogue, he talks about the soul and its divine nature. The Timaeus explores his creation myth, which has the Demiurge (Craftsman, i.e. God) take the extant material of the universe to create the lesser gods, who he ordered to create the earth and the universe that we see around us. Plato's last work, The Laws, defends theism on the grounds that one comes to religion late in life and that it is best to inculcate it into the young through the state to ensure both orderly behavior in the this life and a clean sheet heading into the afterlife. If that isn't enough to make him a theist, and that is not to imply that that is all that Plato had to say, then I can't imagine what conservapedia's criteria are for a theist.

Overall, I must say that conservapedia is exactly what I expected and I plan on alternatively laughing at it and being angered by it for years to come.

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[fuerve]

I think I might actually take up the challenge implied by what you mentioned about that school kid and write a research paper sourced from and drawing conclusions based entirely upon articles in conservapedia. Sounds like a bucket of lols.

[Thucydides2004]

Ha, now that would be interesting. I wouldn't recommend turning it in for a grade, but I would be funny.

[hunchbacked]

My cat would write a better encyclopedia than Andy.

[hunchbacked]

@Eopyk

or cuntopedia.

[Eopyk]

Conservapedia is crapopedia.

All love from me Jasmine