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   From: michelle@michelle.org   
      
   conservapedia.com offers itself as a conservative and Christian   
   alternative to wikipedia.com.  There are a number of differences between   
   the two:   
      
   Wikipedia is open, with all points of view being able to be expressed.   
   Conservapedia is closed; there's no option to register, so only those   
   blessed by the management (who, by the way, is Phyllis Schlafly's son)   
   can make any entries or edit or append to any existing entries.   
      
   Among Conservapedia's complaints about Wikipedia are that articles in   
   Wikipedia use British spelling (e.g., colour and labour) instead of   
   American spelling, and that some articles use CE and BCE instead of AD   
   and BC.   
      
   It is very apparent that the management of Conservapedia does not   
   understand the difference between "Conservative" and "Christian".  But   
   tends to be true of the religious right in general.   
      
   For an example of the objectivity of Conservapedia, I submit their entry   
   for Unicorn:   
      
   The existence of unicorns is controversial. Secular opinion is that they   
   are mythical. However, they are referred to in the Bible nine times,[1]   
   which provides an unimpeachable de facto argument for their once having   
   been in existence.   
      
   In the original texts, unicorns go by the Hebrew name Re-em whereas the   
   Greek Septuagint used the name Monokeros.[2] Unicorn itself is Latin.   
   All three names mean "one horn".   
      
   While popularly characterized as a horned member of the horse baramin,   
   it is likely that the unicorn was actually quite unhorselike. One   
   recognized theory is that the unicorn was actually the rhinoceros,[1]   
   however a growing number of Creation researchers are theorizing that the   
   unicorn was actually a member of the ceratopsian baramin.[2]   
   Post-Noachian references[1] to unicorns have led some researchers to   
   argue that unicorns are still alive today. At the very least, it is   
   likely that they were taken aboard the Ark prior to the Great Flood.   
      
   References   
      1.  1.0 1.1 1.2 "The Identity of the Unicorn"   
      2.  2.0 2.1 "Dinosaurs in the Bible", Genesis Park   
      
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