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Talk:Pro-abortion

2010-03-15T21:56:37Z

TedC: /* Updates */

I know it's a bit late to comment, but how is an explanation of the term "liberal bias"? Or, how would you put it ("the term comes from the idea that...") in a non-liberally-biassed way?
--[[User:G7mzh|G7mzh]] 10:21, 27 July 2007 (EDT)

Isn't saying pro-life just as misleading as saying pro-life? If pro-choice implies pro-''informed'' choice; doesn't pro-life assume that the fetus will become a living baby? Just a thought. --[[User:Snotbowst|Snotbowst]] 18:04, 6 May 2008 (EDT)

: Your analogy doesn't follow. People who are "pro-life" favor preserving the life of the unborn child. Whether that effort is successful or not is beside the point.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 20:31, 6 May 2008 (EDT)

::It is good that you said pro-life is only about unborned children. How should we characterize those that don't want any loss of life? Such as those that want money to go to the poor for better healthcare, or those against unnecessary war? Pro-life is the obvious choice but it's taken by people who only care about prenatal life, not actual born humans. --[[User:NessOkay|NessOkay]] 21:12, 6 May 2008 (EDT)

== Using the "pro-death" line ==

I see that when I had edited out an opinion, leaving a factual statement, the opinion was restored without comment. How is that adhering to the commandments to rely on verifiable facts in these articles, and how can you expect people to find Conservapedia credible when the commandments are applied subjectively? I'd appreciate a response.

DanH, how do you rationalize that your reversal of my edit was not in violation of Conservapedia Commandment #5? It's disrespectful for a SysOp to arbitrarily undo edits like mine, that are in the spirit of the Commandments, without comment.

:Dan, I'm going to agree with Dinsdale to a certain extent. Using the "pro-death" line was a statement of opinion (even though true), and use of it to describe pro-choice and abortion is extremely rare. What needs to happen is to write the article in such a way (with citations) that the reader is left with the feeling and idea that "pro-choice" is exactly "pro-death". [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 16:01, 7 January 2008 (EST)

I put in the pro-death bit as vandalism a few months ago. I had quite a laugh when it was still there later!

== Advocacy ==

I think their maybe people who could be described as pro-abortion, I would describe myself as pro-choice even though I detest abortion I still don't think it should be illegal! --[[User:Smeeee|Smeeee]] 15:44, 9 June 2008 (EDT)

: When someone supports taxpayer-funded abortion or knowingly profits or benefits from the abortion industry, then he is pro-abortion. Of course many people who are pro-abortion try to appear to be reasonable, caring, loving ... and merely pro-choice. But we tell the truth here.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 15:47, 9 June 2008 (EDT)

w00t! CP proved helpful again... and with proving a point against someone who claims she's conservative. 
You can't claim you are a certain political side unless you have knowledge of what you're supporting/bashing. o.O [[Special:Userrights|Make me a sysop!]] [[User:NathanG|Nate]] [[User_talk:NathanG|my opinion matters?]] 23:56, 13 October 2008 (EDT)

== Slant of the article ==

This article seems a bit biased toward being pro-choice instead of neutral. {{unsigned|Bipartisanship}}
:Did you happen to notice the name of the site you are editing? [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 21:23, 10 November 2008 (EST)
::Biased towards pro-choice?? That's crazy. Read it again. It's heavily biased ''against'' the pro-choice movement. [[User:Sideways|Sideways]] 08:58, 12 November 2008 (EST)
:::I assumed that's what the user meant. And by assumed I mean I didn't notice that he said it backwards ;-) [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 11:58, 12 November 2008 (EST)
If by "biased against" you mean it only gave the anti-choice POV, then you're right - especially after my big intro edit just now. A more balanced treatment would explain the reasoning given by pro-choicers for their position; not just the reasons given by pro-lifers against 'choice'. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] [[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]] 09:06, 12 November 2008 (EST)
:Thanks, Ed. I think all articles about non-conservative views deserve a fair treatment; it's the only way to truly start changing minds. [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 11:58, 12 November 2008 (EST)

== Updates ==

I tried cleaning up the article a bit, a lot of it was more political than encyclopedic (e.g. "a better term is pro-baby murder"). I'm still uneasy about the first paragraph. -[[User:Danq|danq]] 17:36, 15 March 2010 (EDT)
:The willful and deliberate killing of another human being is murder, this includes babies. That the baby happens to not have been born at the time of the mudrer is moot. [[User:TedC|TedC]] 17:56, 15 March 2010 (EDT)

Evolutionist censorship

2010-03-15T20:25:21Z

TedC: Created page with ''''Evolutionist censorship''' refers to the practice of evolutionists attempting to censor any information which refutes their pet theory or doesn't agree with their worldvie…'

'''Evolutionist censorship''' refers to the practice of [[evolutionist]]s attempting to censor any information which refutes their pet theory or doesn't agree with their worldview.

Examples include:
* Academic journals refusing to publish papers from [[Creation scientist]]s.
* Refusing to release raw data from publicly funded research.<ref>Professor [[Richard Lenski]] refused to make his raw data available depsite repeated requests from ''Conservapedia''.</ref>
* Liberal [[professor values|profesors]] not allowing students to question the integrity of the [[Theory of Evolution]].
* Attempting to cover-up known fraudulent claims and [[Theory of Evolution and Cases of Fraud, Hoaxes and Speculation|hoaxes]].
* Abusing the legal system to prevent competing theories being taught.<ref> See [[Kitzmiller vs. Dover Area School District]]</ref>

Owing to the [[liberal]] nature of the scientific and educational establishments, such censorship is commonplace in [[public school]]s and universities, however a growing number of creation scientists and conservative educators are fighting this situation.

==References==
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[[Category:Censorship]]
[[Category:Evolution]]

Counterexamples to an Old Earth

2010-03-13T21:33:23Z

TedC: /* Geology */ Added counterexample, not sure if it should be under Geology of Biology?

It takes only one "counterexample" to disprove the theory of an [[Old Earth]]. As with any logical proposition, one contradiction disproves the proposed rule.

== Counterexamples ==
The growing list of counterexamples to the theory of an [[Old Earth]] includes:

=== Astronomy ===
* the [[moon]] is receding from the [[Earth]] at a rate suggesting it would have been too close a billion years ago
* [[spiral galaxies]] appear to be young, and only implausible proposals of the existence of [[dark matter]] can reconcile with belief in an [[old universe]]
* the planetary orbits in the solar system -- including Earth's -- are unstable and unsustainable over the very long time periods asserted by [[atheists]]<ref>[http://www.newsweek.com/id/201582 Newsweek: "An embarrassing little secret of astronomy ...."].</ref>

=== Geology ===
* the massive [[Great Lakes]] are receding in volume too rapidly to have existed a long time
* freshwater lakes are known to be relatively young<ref>[[Ice Age]] theories were developed to try to explain this, but massive freshwater lakes exist even near the equator</ref>
* the existence of inland saltwater lakes, such as [[Mono Lake]] and the [[Great Salt Lake]], suggest a recent global [[flood]]
* the plentiful supply of high concentrations of underground well water, which would be expected based on familiar principles of [[entropy]] to dissipate over a long period of time.
* the [[Earth]]'s magnetism is changing at too fast a rate for the Earth to be old. The Earth's [[magnetic field]] is weakening in strength by 5% every 100 years<ref>[http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/tour/AAmag.html Earth's Magnetic Field and its Changes in Time], from [[NASA]]</ref>. [[Exponential decay]] at that rate is not compatible with an old Earth, since it would have required the Earth's magnetic field to be impossibly large at the times postulated by old-Earth theory.
* earthquakes alter the Earth's rotation every century; extrapolating by orders of magnitude in time would have resulted in the occurrence of much larger earthquakes that would have destabilized the rotation<ref>A similar analysis may be performed for the likelihood of devastating collisions with meteors as time is extrapolated by orders of magnitude.</ref>
* the lack of erosion between rock layers<ref>http://www.amazon.com/review/R1WTZL8GG4H9K0</ref><ref>http://www.knowthebible.net/id115.html</ref>
* levels of contamination in water are rising, as water procedes through the [[water cycle]] it becomes progressively more contaminated. If earth (and life) had existed for billions of years, a limit would have long been reached where water (essantial to life) was too contaminated for life to continue.

=== Biology ===
* the age of onset of [[puberty|sexual maturity]] is rapidly changing, suggesting that life is in a short-term rather than long-term equilibrium<ref>For evidence of a rapidly changing age for sexual maturity in fish, see http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/46/3/235</ref>
* the high observed rate of [[extinctions of species]] and harmful [[genetic mutation]]s suggest a relatively short period for the existence of life rather than a long one.
* the age of onset of [[cancer]] is markedly decreasing,<ref>http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/109865519/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0</ref> suggesting rapid changes inconsistent with an alleged long existence to life
* the oldest direct evidence of life -- written documents, remnants of civilizations, tree rings, etc. -- is no older than about 3000 B.C.
* the number of natural, pure-bred bred dogs declines over time as dogs naturally crossbreed; a short period of time is suggested by the fact that there are over 100 different natural, pure breeds of dog thriving today

== References ==

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== See also ==

* [[Counterexamples to Evolution]]
[[Category:geology]]

Talk:Nick Clegg

2010-03-11T19:24:30Z

TedC: Created page with '== Charged with arson whilst drunk == I don't have any time for liberal politicians like this, but I've read the refernece given and I can't find any info about Clegg's drunken ...'

== Charged with arson whilst drunk ==

I don't have any time for liberal politicians like this, but I've read the refernece given and I can't find any info about Clegg's drunken crime. Is there a better ref we can use? [[User:TedC|TedC]] 14:24, 11 March 2010 (EST)

Television

2010-03-11T18:57:42Z

TedC: Invention

'''Television''' is a medium characterized by the simultaneous dissemination and reproduction (often thousands of miles away) of either a scene captured and shown while it is taking place, or the recording of such a scene or scenes that took place earlier.

== History of Television as a Medium ==
[[Image:OTVbelweder-front.jpg|200px|thumb|right|OT-1471 Belweder, Poland, 1957 
1. power switch / volume 
2. brightness 
3. pitch 
4. vertical synchro 
5. horizontal synchro 
6. contrast 
7. channel tuning 
8. channel switch]]
As with most inventions, there is controversy as to who deserves to be considered "the" inventor, with several different television projects being developed independently.

Early experiments in electromechanical television were conducted by [[Charles Francis Jenkins]] in the late 1920s in the United States, building on the work of British inventor [[John Logie Baird]]. Jenkins patented the first practical television set <ref>US Patent No.1,544,156 </ref> and operated the first television broadcasting station in the US, W3XK, in 1928.

Jenkins' system was not commercially successful and was abandoned. This probably occurred because the [[Great Depression]] intervened and made the medium a prohibitively expensive extravagance.
[[Image:Early television.jpg|thumb|left|In 1936 the first scheduled television broadcasts begins in the United Kingdom with the Unites States following suit in 1939.]]
Other pioneers in the development of television include Philo Farnsworth and Vladimyr Zworykin. Zworkyin developed a series of electronic television camera tubes, all referred to as "iconoscopes." He worked for and was heavily backed by David Sarnoff and the Radio Corporation of America, and his devices are thus in the direct ancestry of commercial television as we know it today.

Following the end of [[World War II]] and the tremendous prosperity that followed, television captured the interest of the public, especially in the [[United States]].

Television is both a dissemination medium and a means of recording motion pictures for later review, transmittal and exhibition.
{{Clear}}

== Uses of Television ==
Television has a very wide variety of uses and seems destined not to become obsolete unless and until human civilization becomes obsolete. Its many uses include without limitation:
[[Image:A180-AT3720A CA.jpg|right|thumb|200px|A modern flat panel high definition 37" Television from ''Acer inc.'']]
# As an aid to education, both by recording lectures, demonstrations, or field trips, and by repeating the voice and image of a lecturer to multiple locations in a large room, or even multiple rooms, to ensure that every attendee of a lecture is able to see and hear the speaker(s).
# As a means of disseminating current events.
# As a means of recording any action or actions that might become the subject of a legal contest. This is especially true today of [[police]] officers who might stand accused of the use of excessive force in the performance of duty, or otherwise improper performance of duty.
# As a means of setting a watch on any gate, room, or other venue that might become the scene of a crime or come under external attack.
# As a means of improved communication.
# As a safe way of "seeing" the scene of an industrial or other process--or accident--that would create danger to any person close enough to see it with his own eyes.
# As a tool of [[propaganda]].
# As a form of [[theater]].

The last use is definitely the most popular use of television today. Television as theater usually refers to the transmission of dramatic presentations either made especially for the medium or originally made to be exhibited in [[motion picture]] exhibition halls ("movie theaters") but now offered for instantaneous mass transmission. Television ''also'' is the modern means of allowing millions of people to view public games. Though the original public games of, say, the [[Rome|Roman Empire]] are no longer being staged, their spiritual descendants continue as, for example, [[automobile]] racing and various contact and non-contact [[sport]]s. Virtually any spectacle that in earlier centuries would draw large numbers of attendees is a candidate for transmission on television. This especially includes the installation of a new head-of-state.

For further discussions of television as theater (and its use and mis-use), see [[Theater]].

== Types of broadcasting ==
* [[Digital television]]
* [[Cable]]
* [[Satellite]]
* [[Analog]] television (to be phased out in the U.S. February 2009)

== References ==

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[[Category:Broadcasting]]
[[Category:Technology]]