Conservapedia:Debate Topics

Debate topic suggestions, organized so that it's not necessary to delete them.

(Note: If some topic is miscategorized, it can be cut and pasted without affecting the relevant links.)

Religious debates

1. Should the first story of creation be read allegorically or literally?
2. What does Christianity say about homosexuality?
3. If God does not exist, can anything be morally wrong?
4. Is it wrong to have a Christmas tree?
5. Did God create evil?
6. If Jesus were alive to day, where on the political spectrum would he fall?
7. Should Religion Play a Large Role in Modern Societies?|Is religion relevant in todays society?
8. Does Intelligent Design deny the Existence of God?
9. If there were no religion, would we find another reason to kill each other?|If there were no religion, would we find another reason to kill each other?]]
10. Natural Disaster versus Act of God
11. Is it possible to be a conservative and not a religious person or even an atheist?
12. Does mainstream Islam endorse violence?
13. Why should we be afraid of God?
14. Why is homosexuality so bad?
15. If Noah only brought two of every animal on the ark, wouldn't subsequent generations of animals have become increasingly inbred?

Political debates

1. Has Britain Declined? Quoting Conservapedia's front page; "The British government just affirmed its ban on mentioning Intelligent Design to students.[3] No one there seems to notice how Britain's decline coincided with its promotion of evolution frauds like the Piltdown Man."
2. Is illegal immigration control the answer to illegal immigration?
3. Define torture
4. Should the United States have entered World War I?
5. Should the United States have entered World War II?
6. Was the United States right to drop atomic bombs so quickly on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
7. Is gun-control the answer to crimes involving guns?
8. Does "free trade" increase wealth rather than simply redistribute it?
9. Should public displays of the 10 Commandments be allowed under the constitution?
10. Which has the best philosophy of education: the public school system, private schools, or the home school movement?
11. Should people genetically engineer a cure for homosexuality?
12. Women in the Military?
13. Porn or guns?|Does porn actually cause (not merely correlate to) violence?]]
14. Should gun sales to terror suspects be allowed?
15. Why did God place most of the world's oil in politically unstable places?

Scientific debates

1. Does Darwinian natural selection suggest that homosexuality is bad for the survival of a species?
2. Is global warming evident, and if so, is this the fault of man, and how must man stop it?
3. Is homosexuality a mental illness?

Debates about Conservapedia

1. Conservapedia:Is Conservapedia representing a conservative POV or a Young Earth Creationist POV?
2. Is Conservapedia anti-British?
3. The liberal quotient of Conservapedia; what is it? Does it matter?
4. Does bias impair Wikipedia's reliability?
5. Should the term list entries be included in Conservapedia's entry count?
6. How should Conservapedia work to avoid having a conservative bias?
7. Can Conservapedia Succeed?
8. Is Conservapedia fair and balanced?
9. How can we protect Conservapedia by distinguishing real conservative encyclopedia articles from satires written by liberals?
10. What exactly is Conservapedia?
11. Was the media attention needed?
12. Conservapedia Debate Topics full of far left liberal netroots
13. Which is true; progressive Liberal or regressive liberal
14. Conservapedia:Where do you personally look for facts and information on topics "When did Brahms live" or "Why did Monet paint grainstacks?"
15. Conservapedia:Is it okay for Conservapedia to have biased articles?
16. Conservapedia:On whether certain articles on human anatomy should be pre-emptively blanked and protected
17. Conservapedia:Who deletes entire discussion items from here? And why?
18. Why do users, who contribute substantially, choose to leave this community?
19. Why do the creators of conservapeida see wikipedia as un-American?
20. Is the use of copyrighted photographs without permission stealing?
21. Are there too many debates on Conservapedia?
22. Conservapedia:Is it tasteless for Conservapedia to critique the Virginia Tech poem on the Main Page?
23. Conservapedia:Has anyone ever been been banned for pointing out that many of the other entries on this site are in need of citation and evidence to back up statements?
24. Conservapedia:Does an encyclopedia define complex subjects, or insert more bias into them?
25. Conservapedia: Do sysops block editing on pages when it seems their opponents are making strong points?
26. Conservapedia: Is Conservapedia a 'Trustworthy Encyclopedia'?
27. Conservapedia: Does altering the record of debate in a wiki 'Encyclopedia' render the entire thing a farce?
28. Democrats next move, link more stories of heartache like those from Kansas to Gulf Coast.
29. Do quotes used to support a theory just make an article look stupid?

Funny, maybe?

1. Are cats just useless dogs?
2. Is the Platypus evidence that God has a sense of humour?
3. Was the shooting at Virginia Tech somehow President Bush's fault? (kind of like he caused hurricane Katrina)
4. Are video games getting better or worse as graphics, sound, and gameplay complexity improve?

Other

1. Conservapedia:Are alcohol, marijuana, and nicotine gateway drugs?
2. Conservapedia:Is Rap music torture?
3. Conservapedia:Should weed be legalized?
4. Debate:What are the lessons that we should take away from the Milgram Experiment
5. Conservapedia:Does the Theory of Evolution promote atheism?
6. Discussion:Colorado Mall Shootings
7. Discussion:Creationist