# Conservapedia. The "conservative" answer to wikipedia. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 20, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020 "2007-02-20T21:38:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020/21 "2007-02-21T01:59:29Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur866] I suspect there might be some good old fashioned kidding going on at that Conservapedia site. [/QUOTE] Sort of like a Landoverbaptipedia? Be funny if that were true. Then lefty social vandals could sneak in idiotic misinformation and snicker when their ideological opponents blindly parrot it back to them. “Carbon dating _does so_ work because all the little carbon atoms fall in love with each other and stick together! I read it on Conservapedia!” ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020/22 "2007-02-21T02:28:38Z")
The website isn’t working for me! ☹ Oh, but Encyclopedia Dramatica is hysterical! ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020/23 "2007-02-21T02:44:58Z")
I believe it’s a great big whoosh. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020/24 "2007-02-21T02:45:57Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] The website isn’t working for me! ☹ Oh, but Encyclopedia Dramatica is hysterical! [/QUOTE] Oh, you’ve no clue. do more poking around on that site. There’s some really funny shit there. Look at the photoshopped pictures they have. ---
**Author:** ![TheOnlySaneOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020/25 "2007-02-21T03:13:31Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] I looked at “evolution” on that site. It’s pretty concise. Then compare that to the entry for “creationism”. It, too, is pretty small. They’re much to small and simplistic, at least for now. Later, we’ll really have looking at it and rolling our collective eyes. [/QUOTE] Later is now, my friend! Have a look at the page on [The Truthiness of Evolution](http://www.conservapedia.com/Is_the_theory_of_macroevolution_true%3F). What starts as a simple point/counter-point page devolves into a knock-down dragout between people arguing, losing any sort of encyopedia-ness. Kind of like Great Debates without the awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020/26 "2007-02-21T03:17:54Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Maybe it’s a joke site. [/QUOTE] Seems serious to me [OPEC](http://www.conservapedia.com/OPEC) > [@](#): > > The evil empire that over charges us for oil, and causes gas prices to go up. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020/27 "2007-02-21T04:31:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Last edited by Tapioca Dextrin : Today at 09:19 PM. Reason: Codding Hey, we’ll have none of that deviant codding around here. You get lake trout like everyone else or nothing! ---
**Author:** ![MovingTarget](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@MovingTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovingTarget)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020/28 "2007-02-21T16:48:07Z")
Ok, too funny. Decided to look up pagan for my pagan friend and found this entry… Pagan: A pagan is someone who beleives in false gods. The First Commandment is, Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. Most pagans are ancient, like the Greeks and Romans, but there are also modern pagans like witches and Muslims, who do not beleive in Jesus. I find this site rather amusing actually. ---
**Author:** ![guppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@guppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guppy)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020/29 "2007-02-21T17:36:42Z")
How about this gem: “Others have pointed to the pagan roots of various Muslim prohibitions, such as the ban on pork originating in the 3rd-century AD Damascene cult of the pig-god Jamal.” [Link](http://www.conservapedia.com/Islam) ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020/30 "2007-02-21T18:05:07Z")
A serach of Wikipedia for “Conservapedia” brings up a single hit on the [Eagle Forum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Forum) with the statement > [@](#): > > Eagle Forum is connected with Eagle Forum University, which offers conservative-oriented online courses on topics such as American History 101. Eagle Forum University courses make use of Conservapedia, a nascent wiki-based online encyclopedia with a conservative point of view. (I can’t help feeling that at least the last sentence is a sign that someone is having a bit of fun.) ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020/31 "2007-02-21T18:08:28Z")
Did we break it with overload? I can’t get to it except as cached Google links. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020/32 "2007-02-21T18:18:25Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] The Homosphere! Two men enter! Then two more! And two more after that! And… does anyone have a towel? It’s getting kind of messy in the Homosphere. [/QUOTE] Funny, when I saw the word ‘Homosphere’ I thought it was a new fairy-tale Uber Christians told their kids. You know, the one with the floating [silver ball](http://www.anchorbay.co.uk/phantasm/images/PhantasmSphereClosed.jpg) with blades on the end that floats around church hallways and attacks little kids who don’t pray to Jesus enough. Don’t get me started on the Priest/Minister/Tall Man. :eek: [“Boy…!”](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c6/Scrimm.jpg/180px-Scrimm.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020/33 "2007-02-21T18:30:48Z")
[QUOTE=iano] > [@](#): > > Ancient History (Creation-500 AD) 😃 [/QUOTE] Wow, that’s like, over 4,500 years. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020/34 "2007-02-21T18:33:40Z")
I can’t get to the page – I googled it and tried to get in from every link on the first page of entries, but the server must be down. I think it may be the most successful sabotage of the extreme right ever. That’d be great – the Steve Colbert of online encyclopedias! It would be nice if Wikipedia had some editing oversight, though. I’ve heard that it’s been suggested, but it would cost too much, etc. Still, it’d be nice to have a living, dynamic, and FREE online encyclopedia that one could unequivocally depend on. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020/35 "2007-02-21T18:43:34Z")
Ha. I think we broke it. I can’t get into the site either about the truthiness of microevolution. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020/36 "2007-02-21T19:07:34Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] The Homosphere! Two men enter! Then two more! And two more after that! And… does anyone have a towel? It’s getting kind of messy in the Homosphere. [/QUOTE] Crap, does this mean I have to change my Sig? ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020/37 "2007-02-21T20:07:53Z")
[QUOTE=Snipe1978] Ok, too funny. Decided to look up pagan for my pagan friend and found this entry… Pagan: A pagan is someone who beleives in false gods. The First Commandment is, Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. Most pagans are ancient, like the Greeks and Romans, but there are also modern pagans like witches and Muslims, who do not beleive in Jesus. I find this site rather amusing actually. [/QUOTE] But… but… the Greeks are Christian… and the Muslims believe in Jesus (well, they believe he existed, and he was very important)… and… _head explodes_ I wonder what the page says about Catholics? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020/38 "2007-02-21T20:46:00Z")
They should just have one page called La La La La La I Can’t Hear You. Every query about evolution, science, physics (and therefore mathematics), any literature after the fall of the Roman Empire, geology, history, any non-European non-American country, any alternate religions, or anything that uses reason or common sense should redirect to that page. Let’s start a betting pool on how long it takes for Conservapedia to collapse under the weight of all the alternative varieties of religious dogma it has to support. Instead of “the neutrality of this article is under dispute” it should read “the supporters of this viewpoint will be excommunicated and sent to HELL!!” ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020/39 "2007-02-21T21:11:22Z")
Maybe [some of these](http://www.cracked.com/?name=News&sid=1293) could be adapted? (Possibly mildly NSFW, for especially strict values of W) ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020/40 "2007-02-21T21:31:55Z")
[QUOTE=Fish] They should just have one page called La La La La La I Can’t Hear You. Every query about evolution, science, physics (and therefore mathematics), any literature after the fall of the Roman Empire, geology, history, any non-European non-American country, any alternate religions, or anything that uses reason or common sense should redirect to that page. [/QUOTE] Much like the [CreationWiki](http://creationwiki.org/Main_Page). In a nutshell: Creationism = Good Evolution = Bad [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-conservative-answer-to-wikipedia/393020.md?page=3)