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==Economic debates==
 
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# [[Debate: Did World War II end the Great Depression?]]
 
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# [[Debate: Can there be price controls without shortages?]]
 
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# [[Debate: Counterfeiting: A Moral Hazard]]
 
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# [[Is our freedom to consume what we want whenever we want worth the cost (i.e. environmental, social, economic, etc.)?]]
 
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#[[Debate:Is the 2009 Stimulus Plan the right approach, and if not what would be?]]
 
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===Trade===
 
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# [[Debate:Does "free trade" increase wealth rather than simply redistribute it?]] 
 
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# [[Debate:Why do we still have an embargo on Cuba?]]
 
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===Healthcare===
 
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# [[Debate: U.S. Supreme Court ruling on ObamaCare: a proper ruling?]]
 
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# [[Debate:Is the Bush administration's Conscience Rule a step forward or backward for U.S. Healthcare?]]
 
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#[[Debate:Should Americans be required to buy health insurance?]]
 
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===Education===
 
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# [[Debate:Does Abstinence Only Education help or hurt us?]]
 
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# [[Debate:You think these Phd's are nuts?]]
 
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# [[Debate:Which has the best philosophy of education: the public school system, private schools, or the home school movement?]]
 
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# [[Debate:Should students learn a foreign language?]]
 
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===Foreign Policy===
 
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# [[Debate:Should the United States intervene in small countries to defeat communism there?]]
 
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# [[Debate:Should American companies be allowed to send their own troops into a war which America is participating in?]]
 
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# [[Debate:Can a rogue nation be thought of as a sovereign nation?]]
 
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# [[Debate:Has Russia reinstalled stealth communism?]]
 
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====Middle East====
 
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# [[Debate:Is it even possible to install democracy in a Muslim country?]]
 
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# [[Debate:Is democracy even possible in Iraq?]]
 
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# [[Debate:Which is a more powerful ideology, Islam or communism?]]
 
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# [[Debate:Is the Iraq War a success?]]
 
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# [[Debate:Should the U.S.A. abide by a withdrawal timetable if the Iraqi Parliament votes for one?]]
 
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# [[Debate:Should U.S. troops be subject to Iraqi law if that allows our continued presence there?]]
 
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# [[Debate:Why did God place most of the world's oil in politically unstable places?]]
 
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#[[Debate:What should be America's policy toward Islam]]?
 
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# [[Debate: Was Osama really killed in Abbottabad?]]
 
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====Europe====
 
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# [[Debate:Has Britain Declined?]]
 
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# [[Debate:Has Britain become the 51st State of the US?]]
 
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# [[Debate:Does the European Union pose a threat to the United States?]]
 
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# [[Debate:Should the United States leave the United Nations?]]
 
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# [[Debate:Was American soldier Michael New right to refuse to fight wearing part of a United Nations uniform?]]  See [[Michael New]]
 
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===Environment===
 
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# [[Debate:Is environmentalism mostly about preserving natural resources?]]
 
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# [[Debate:Relationship between Socialism and athletic performance]]
 
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==Scientific debates==
 
==Scientific debates==
 
===Creationism/Intelligent Design===
 
===Creationism/Intelligent Design===

Revision as of 15:25, October 24, 2012

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

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Scientific debates

Creationism/Intelligent Design

  1. Debate:Does Intelligent Design deny the Existence of God?
  2. Debate:Are Young Earth Creationists detracting others from the Faith?
  3. Debate:Creationist
  4. Debate:Should Creationism/Intelligent design be taught as a scientific alternative to evolution in public schools?
  5. Debate:If the universe is young and it takes light millions of years to reach us from far off stars, how can we see them?
  6. Debate:If the Bible didn't contain a creation story, would anyone even consider the idea of a young earth?
  7. Debate:Is Relativity in direct conflict with the Genesis account?
  8. Debate:If it could be unambiguously demonstrated that man is NOT the most evolved animal
  9. Debate: Creationism, Evolutionism and the 15 questions
  10. Debate: So who's right?
  11. Debate:Creationist
  12. Debate:How should we view the fact leading scientists do not believe in god?

Evolution

  1. Debate: Can you be a true Christian and believe in evolution?
  2. Debate:Is Darwinism liberal or is it conservative?
  3. Debate:Does Darwinian natural selection suggest that bigotry is a necessary self-defense mechanism?
  4. Debate:Is Darwinian natural selection compatible with Marxism?
  5. Debate:Is the theory of macroevolution true?
  6. Is the evidence in favor of evolution convincing?
  7. Debate:Can the science of evolution be separated from the philosophy of it?
  8. Debate: What does Evolution attempt to explain?
  9. Debate:Does the Theory of Evolution promote atheism?

Global Warming

  1. Debate:Is global warming evident, and if so, is this the fault of man, and how must man stop it?
  2. Debate:God, Earth and Global Warming

Other

  1. Debate:Who feels that scientific related articles should only reference published research papers instead of websites when dealing with research instead of application?
  2. Debate:Listing the Earth's most pressing needs in urgent order of fixing
  3. Debate: Should the United States defund the National Science Foundation?
  4. Debate:Should the United States begin Colonizing Space?

Debates about Conservapedia

Wikis

  1. Debate:Can Conservapedia become the next Wikipedia, is this good or bad
  2. Debate:Does bias impair Wikipedia's reliability?
  3. Debate:Does an encyclopedia define complex subjects, or insert more bias into them?
  4. Debate:Does altering the record of debate in a wiki 'Encyclopedia' render the entire thing a farce?
  5. Debate:Can/May/Should online wiki encyclopedias copy from each other?

Positions

  1. Debate:What is CP's position on Relativity? (and, in general, on physical sciences)
  2. Debate:Is Conservapedia representing a conservative POV or a Young Earth Creationist POV?
  3. Debate:The liberal quotient of Conservapedia; what is it? Does it matter?
  4. Debate:How should Conservapedia work to avoid having a conservative bias?
  5. Debate:How can we protect Conservapedia by distinguishing real conservative encyclopedia articles from satires written by liberals?
  6. Debate:Is it tasteless for Conservapedia to critique the Virginia Tech poem on the Main Page?
  7. Debate:Should Conservapedia be more open about sex related articles?

Characteristics

  1. Debate:Can Conservapedia Succeed?
  2. Debate:Is Conservapedia fair and balanced?
  3. Debate:What exactly is Conservapedia?
  4. Debate:Is it okay for Conservapedia to have biased articles?
  5. Debate:Is Conservapedia a 'Trustworthy Encyclopedia'?

Blocking Policy

  1. Debate: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?
  2. Debate:Do sysops block editing on pages when it seems their opponents are making strong points?
  3. Debate:Does Conservapedia censor opponents the way Expelled says ID advocates are censored?
  4. Debate:The 90/10 rule exists soley to squash debate, and should be eliminated

Other

  1. Debate:Should the term list entries be included in Conservapedia's entry count?
  2. Debate:Where do you personally look for facts and information on topics "When did Brahms live" or "Why did Monet paint grainstacks?"
  3. Is Conservapedia blinkered?
  4. Debate:Is the Conservapedia Logo in violation of US Flag Code?
  5. Debate:Should the Conservapedia logo be changed?
  6. Debate:Is it time to propagate Conservapedia in other languages/countries?

Media

Media Bias

  1. Debate:Does the media really have a liberal bias?
  2. Debate:Propaganda in childrens' television

Decency Standards

  1. Debate: To what extent should we have obscenity laws
  2. Debate: Should certain books be banned from libraries?
  3. Debate:Does modern music negatively influence children
  4. Debate:Is Anime and Manga Ok?

Music

  1. Debate:Is Rap music torture?
  2. Debate:What Is Music?

Other

  1. Debate:Was the media attention needed?
  2. Debate:Is the use of copyrighted photographs without permission stealing?

Funny, maybe?

  1. Debate:Are cats just useless Dogs
  2. Debate:Was the shooting at Virginia Tech somehow President Bush's fault?
  3. Debate:Are video games getting better or worse as graphics, sound, and gameplay complexity improve?
  4. Debate:Favorite old time radio show

Other

  1. Debate:What are the lessons that we should take away from the Milgram Experiment
  2. Debate:Mall Shootings
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