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RAZD Member (Idle past 1433 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
What's funny about that, I hear you ask? What's funny is that that's the entire article. This is what it says about tree rings:
quote:You searched for tree rings and clicking on Dendrochronology gives (in toto):
quote: Only one reference? And they didn't even cite Don Batten's article? To say nothing of the FACT that "Dendrochronology" is about more than just the age of the tree in question (hence the inclusion of the "-chronology" root):
That last one from The American Heritage Science Dictionary. Not ONE of the definitions says it is only about seeing how old the tree itself was. Sad when an "encyclopedia" can't even get the definition correct eh? Sad when you get more information from a definition than you do from an "encyclopedia" when they could easily just use the definition in the first place. Illiteracy is like that. Enjoy. compare Fiocruz Genome and fight Muscular Dystrophy with Team EvC! (click) we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmericanOZen[Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share.
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Straggler Member (Idle past 93 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
I broadly agree with you. I would add that the incitement to religious hatred laws and the equivelent race hate laws seem to be getting embroiled with each other in a way that is not helpful to either.
The governments over zealousness in introducing new legislation as an answer to every problem and the fact that if used wrongly such legislation can, as you say, be very counterproductive are both causes for concern IMHO. I don't know what the forum guidelines say about revealing locations etc. (if anything) but I just wondered which part of london you are from?
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 312 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
Spain
Country located on the Iberian Penninsula. Borderd by the Alantic Ocean to the west and the Mediterranean on the east. Portuagal is located on the same penninsuala. Is the same country as was in the medieval times. And known for its famous explorers. --- Yes, that's the whole article. Even more breathtaking in its brevity:
Catholics The members of the Catholic church. --- I detect the hand of a subtle prankster:
War Elephants In The Ancient World War elephants were important, although not widespread, weapons in ancient military history. Their main use was in charges, to trample the enemy and/or break their ranks, they were also used by the Diadochi to protect against cavalry attack. War elephants could be either male or female animals. Male elephants were generally larger and more physically powerful, but female elephants were generally considered to have a more violent disposition (particularly during their menstrual cycles) that made them well-suited to a battlefield role. The Carthaginian general Hannibal made devastating use of menstruating "Berserker Elephants" during the Second Punic War (218 - 202 BC). In The Modern World While the introduction of modern [[firearms], artillery, and tanks largely limited the elephant's usefulness on the battlefield, they are still employed in a variety of specialized combat roles in modern armies around the world. In 2003, Thailand contributed 260 specially trained elephants to Coalition Forces in the Iraq War for purposes of unexploded ordinance disposal and minefield clearing. Within two years, all of these animals were killed in theater. A memorial to these elephants, affectionately known as "Dumbo Team", was erected in Patong Beach, Thailand in 2006. Crushing By Elephants Crushing by elephant was for thousands of years a common method of execution used in parts of southeast Asia and India. Elephants employed in this manner were used to crush, dismember, or torture captives in public executions. It was not uncommon for the victims' families to be forced to wash the feet of the elephants after an execution. The use of elephants to execute captives often attracted the horrified interest of European travellers, and was recorded in numerous contemporary journals and accounts of life in Asia. The practice was largely suppressed by the European empires that colonized the region in the 18th and 19th centuries, but recent reports confirm that Christian missionaries in Pakistan were crushed to death by elephants in this manner as recently as 1997. Sources http://www.dopa.go.th - Department of Provincial Administration, Ministry of Interior, Royal Thai Government --- That link is well worth following --- It's also interesting to have a look at their longest pages: a list can be found here. Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8561 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
Conservapedia:Commandments - Conservapedia
Note Commandment #4: “When referencing dates based on the approximate birth of Jesus, give appropriate credit for the basis of the date (B.C. or A.D.). "BCE" and "CE" are unacceptable substitutes because they deny the historical basis. See CE.” Conservapedia:Index - Conservapedia Now see their World History Index. That is a real indicator of the intellect of this site...stupidity.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 312 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
Peru
Country in western South America.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 312 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
Iraq
A Middle-Eastern country, invaded in 2003 and currently occupied by a U.S.-led coalition. --- With that sort of detailed insight, it's hard to see how anything could have gone wrong.
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sidelined Member (Idle past 5936 days) Posts: 3435 From: Edmonton Alberta Canada Joined: |
Canada
Canada is the second largest country in the world for it's considerable amount of land. It was named Canada because when an explorer came to a Canadian Indian village he asked what this place was called, and they told him "Kanada", which means village in their Indian language. It borders the United States, and most of it's population is in The more southern provinces of Canada. The capital city of Canada is Ottawa, Ontario. Canada was founded in 1867 and its first Prime Minister was Sir John A. Macdonald. The people writing this are just beacons of information eh? Edited by sidelined, : No reason given.
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Jon Inactive Member |
HA! I find this quote you picked out exteremely interesting, mostly because of how contradictory it is:
quote: Emphasis mine They admit that Down's Symdrome is a MUTATION caused by an INCREASED number of chromosomes, and then go on to say that MUTATIONS never INCREASE information. As mad as a Weasel on a Pogo-stick indeed! Max Edited by Trékuhrid, : Sphelling
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subbie Member (Idle past 1282 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: |
quote: No webpage found at provided URL: http://www.conservapedia.com/John_Scopes Ah, what a breath of fresh, unbiased, air. Those who would sacrifice an essential liberty for a temporary security will lose both, and deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1495 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
I see that it meets Conservapedia's factual standards, as well. Scopes pleading guilty? Oh, and I'm so completely sure that the Scopes Monkey Trial was the reason Bush carried Tennesee in 2000.
These people expose the idiocy that represents the very core of American conservativism.
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Jon Inactive Member |
quote: Max
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Hyroglyphx Inactive Member |
Clearly it is very amateurish, and says some very funny, strange things. It must be noted that it has to some degree been compromised by piss-takers and pastiche-artists, hence the current lock-down on new accounts. Personally, I think its as mad as a screaming weasel on a pogo-stick, and I think it might be potentially quite damaging - an example of a kind of social isolationism. I was just wondering what anyone else thought of it. Amteurish or not, the fact that Wikipedia is a user net means that anybody can simply invent their own facts based on only superficial evidence. They do have editors who look for "vandalism," but given that Wikipedia is run by about 30 people coupled with the fact that there is probably over a million articles at this point, means that special interest groups can spin their own version facts and history. Is it a big problem? No, not for the most part. I think Wiki is still basically a reliable source, but there is alleged bias both liberal and conservative. And I can say that I've come across some very suspicious articles. Usually, however, they are flagged for "neutrality," which means one of those 30 people is doing their job. "He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God. -Micah 6:8
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NosyNed Member Posts: 9004 From: Canada Joined: |
If you find any that relate at all to EvC you could bring them up for discussion maybe? One to a thread would be appropriate I think.
It is certainly easy to find junk, not just biased but junk, in the conservawiki. It's quite fun actually.
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3990 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
Tusko writes: But do you know what the really sick thing is? The more that people take the piss by altering this godawful site, the more this proves to people inclined to take it seriously that the evolutionists/atheists/onanists are a nasty bunch who should be avoided: the more it proves that Wikipedia is biased - which to them is clearly synonymous with wrong. Isn't that the biggest tragedy of all? Well, it's pretty stupid all round, but I don't think it rises to the level of tragedy. It is deliciously appropriate that no certain distinction can be made between sincere idiocy and its parody on Conservapedia. The use of our magnificent brains to create and maintain ignorance and bigotry--now, there's tragedy. Everything else is carnival. Real things always push back. -William James Save lives! Click here!Join the World Community Grid with Team EvC! ---------------------------------------
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Chiroptera Inactive Member |
quote: This morning I noticed that someone had written a long article on Hillary Clinton. I noticed, because last night it was only a paragraph long. It mentioned that she was involved in the national health care debate a few years ago. "National health care" was a link, and when I clicked on it I got the page on Communism. Heh. I'm still trying to decide if that was a "sincere idiocy" or a parody. Actually, if their god makes better pancakes, I'm totally switching sides. -- Charley the Australopithecine
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