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   From: lesliesethhammond@yahoo.com   
      
   "Michelle Steiner"  wrote in message   
   news:michelle-E0569A.22200426022007@news.east.cox.net...   
   > 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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