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| − | To find out general information about me, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philip_J._Rayment my user page] on Wikipedia.
| + | :: I think it's going further than Don DeYoung to say that Velikovsky "rejects the Bible". Rejects the miraculous aspect, yes, but not the Bible per se. Velikovsky accepted much more of the ''history'' of the Bible than many other non-Christians. |
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| + | ::: My e-mail will be on its way shortly, but you could have simply asked me to use the "e-mail this user" link on the left (of your user pages) to save posting it here publicly. |
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| + | ::: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 06:45, 16 February 2009 (EST) |
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| − | <div style="background: #AFD; border: 1px solid #AAA; padding: .3em; margin-right:265px; margin-bottom:1em"><p>I have been an '''Administrator''' (sysop) on Conservapedia since being invited to be one early in April 2007.</p>
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| − | <p>Unless indicated otherwise from the context (issuing a warning or instruction, for example), any comments I make on talk pages should be considered to be from me as an editor, not as an Administrator.</p>
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| − | <p>Similarly, contributions I make to articles are not sacroscant, and may be improved by other editors.</p></div>
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| − | <div style="float:right; width:40%"><small>{{Bible quote|We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.|book=2_Corinthians|chap=10|verses=5|version=NIV}}
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| − | {{Bible quote|A gentle answer turns away wrath,but a harsh word stirs up anger|book=Proverbs|chap=15|verses=1|version=NIV}}
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| − | {{Bible quote|Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.|book=1_Peter|chap=3|verses=15|version=NIV}}</small></div>
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| − | == Useful links ==
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| − | ! Sub-pages
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| − | ! More useful links
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| − | * [[/Welcome script|Welcome script]]
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| − | * [[/contest|1st Contest]] (now finished)
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| − | * [[/Article renaming project|Article renaming project]]
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| − | * [[/Category deletions|Category deletions]]
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| − | * [[/Sandbox|Sandbox]]
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| − | * [[/HeaderTest|HeaderTest]]
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| − | <!--* [[/Social Darwinism]] (a reply to AmesG's [[User:AmesG/social|essay]])-->
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| − | * [[/Creationism|Creationism]]
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| − | * [[/Evolution|Evolution]]
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| − | * [[/Advice to evolutionists|Advice to evolutionists]]
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| − | * [[/Editorial|Editorial]]<br /><small>(written soon after joining here)</small>
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| − | * [[Essay: Accuracy vs. neutrality on Conservapedia| Accuracy vs. neutrality on Conservapedia]]
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| − | * [[/How to debate|How to debate]]
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| − | * [[Essay: Freedom of speech| Freedom of speech]]
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| − | * [[Essay: The Tree of Life| The Tree of Life]]
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| − | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Table Wikipedia help for tables]
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| − | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Template Wikipedia help for templates]
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| − | * [[special:NewPages]]
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| − | * [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=newusers&user=&page= User creation log]
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| − | * [[MediaWiki:Captcha-addurl-whitelist|Captcha whitelist]]
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| − | == My Contributions ==
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| − | I think that the first three lists below are complete, but the other two lists may be missing quite a few entries.
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| − | [http://faleg.org/cgi-bin/conservapedia/editcounter_Tool1?username=Philip%20J.%20Rayment Detailed breakdown and count.]
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| − | === Started ===
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| − | <small>
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| − | * [[Information]]
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| − | * [[Help:Templates|Templates]]
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| − | * [[Railway]]
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| − | * [[ANZAC Day]]
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| − | * [[Help:Editing etiquette|Editing etiquette]]
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| − | * [[Mungo Man]]
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| − | * [[Pet]]
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| − | * [[tram]]
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| − | * [[Falsifiability of evolution]]
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| − | * [[Twisties]]
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| − | * [[help:Creating templates|Creating templates]]
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| − | * [[Conservapedia:Editor's guide|Editor's guide]]
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| − | * [[Railway track]]
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| − | * [[Electric railway]]
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| − | * [[help:Using templates|Using templates]]
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| − | * [[List of Prime Ministers of Australia]] (cut and paste from [[Australia]])
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| − | * [[Conservapedia:User rights|User rights]]
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| − | * [[Rilpedia]]
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| − | * [[Creation and evolution compared]] (empty shell)
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| − | * [[Mallard (locomotive)]]
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| − | * [[Fence]]
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| − | * [[Furphy]]
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| − | * [[/Welcome script|Welcome script]] (javascript)
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| − | * [[Edmund Barton]]
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| − | * [[Alfred Deakin]]
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| − | * [[John Watson]]
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| − | * [[George Reid]]
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| − | * [[Andrew Fisher]]
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| − | * [[Classification system]]
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| − | * [[Azaria Chamberlain]]
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| − | * [[Joseph Cook]]
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| − | * [[Double dissolution]]
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| − | * [[Sulphur-crested Cockatoo]]
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| − | * [[William Hughes]]
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| − | * [[Stanley Bruce]]
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| − | * [[James Scullin]]
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| − | * [[Indian Pacific]]
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| − | * [[Salt Shakers]]
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| − | * [[Voting in Australia]]
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| − | * [[Suppression of alternatives to evolution]]
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| − | * [[Law of biogenesis]]
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| − | * [[Carols by Candlelight]]
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| − | * [[English coronation oath]]
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| − | * [[Biblical anthropology]]
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| − | * [[Public transport]]
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| − | * [[Pavlova]]
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| − | * [[Safeworking (railway)]]
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| − | * [[Horatio Spafford]]
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| − | * [[Biblical accuracy]]
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| − | * [[Star Trek (original series)]]
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| − | * [[Extraterrestrial life in Star Trek]]
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| − | * [[Project Steve]]
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| − | === Templates created ===
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| − | * {{tl|UB}}
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| − | * {{tl|User 6000YearOldEarth}}
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| − | * {{tl|User ComingBigBang}}
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| − | * {{tl|useful links}}
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| − | * {{tl|TemplateDoc}}
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| − | * {{tl|Parms}}
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| − | * {{tl|Parm}}
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| − | * {{tl|TemplateDocRqd}}
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| − | * {{tl|tt}}
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| − | * {{tl|t row if}}
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| − | * {{tl|country}}
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| − | * {{tl|merge from}}
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| − | * {{tl|merge advice}}
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| − | * {{tl|2if1}}
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| − | * {{tl|PM}}
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| − | * {{tl|Succession}}
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| − | * {{tl|WP no copying}}
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| − | * {{tl|Copied from}}
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| − | * {{tl|etymology}}
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| − | * {{tl|fa}}
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| − | * {{tl|Bible}}
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| − | * {{tl|Bio header}}
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| − | * {{tl|Raw parm doc}}
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| − | * {{tl|Bio}}
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| − | === Major rewrites ===
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| − | * [[Biblical creation account]]
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| − | * [[Date of creation]]
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| − | * [[Definitions of evolution]]
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| − | * [[Great Flood]]
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| − | * [[Geologic system]]
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| − | * [[Jurassic]]
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| − | * [[Ice Age]]
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| − | * [[Cretaceous]]
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| − | * [[Natural science]]
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| − | * [[Perjury]] (all eight words!)
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| − | * [[Knuckle sandwich]] (remove vandalism)
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| − | * [[Permian]]
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| − | * [[Third rail]]
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| − | * [[Race]]
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| − | * {{tl|Taxonomy}}
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| − | * [[School]]
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| − | * [[Cubit]]
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| − | * [[Oort Cloud]]
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| − | * [[Religion]]
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| − | * [[Triassic]]
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| − | * [[Species]]
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| − | * [[Coal]]
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| − | * [[Oil]]
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| − | * [[Crossword]]
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| − | * [[Pleistocene]]
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| − | * [[Starlight problem]]
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| − | * [[Universe]]
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| − | * [[Omnipotence]]
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| − | * [[Evolution and creation]]
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| − | * [[Vegemite]]
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| − | * [[Evidence]]
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| − | * [[Carbon dating]]
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| − | * [[Fossils]]
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| − | * [[Bible history]]
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| − | === Significant editing ===
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| − | * [[Adam]]
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| − | * [[Australia]]
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| − | * [[Creation Week]]
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| − | * [[Dinosaur]]
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| − | * [[Earth]]
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| − | * [[Garden of Eden]]
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| − | * [[Genesis]]
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| − | * [[Noah's Ark]]
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| − | * [[Conservapedia:Userboxes]]
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| − | * [[Tyrannosaurus rex]]
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| − | * [[Young Earth Creationism]]
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| − | * {{tl|welcome}}
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| − | * [[Election]]
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| − | * [[Types of evolution]]
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| − | * [[Radiometric dating]]
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| − | * [[Velociraptor]]
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| − | * [[Creation story]]
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| − | * [[Bird]]
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| − | * [[Archaeopteryx]]
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| − | * [[Pterosaur]]
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| − | * [[Victoria]]
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| − | * [[Homology]]
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| − | * [[Eyespot]]
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| − | * [[Language]]
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| − | * [[Fire Fighting]]
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| − | * [[Currency]]
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| − | * [[Train]]
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| − | * [[Natural selection]]
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| − | * [[Mutation]]
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| − | * [[Pangea]]
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| − | * [[Pound]]
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| − | * [[Occam's razor]]
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| − | * [[Plate tectonics]]
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| − | * [[Borland Delphi]]
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| − | * [[Pascal programming language]]
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| − | * [[Cryogenian]]
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| − | * [[Saint Ambrose]]
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| − | * [[Morality]]
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| − | * [[Quote mining]]
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| − | * [[God]]
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| − | * [[Star Trek]]
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| − | === Less significant editing ===
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| − | * [[Dihydrogen monoxide]]
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| − | * [[Haploid chromosome number (n)]]
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| − | * [[Conservapedia:Is the Bible Inerrant?]]
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| − | * [[Kangaroo]]
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| − | * [[Media bias]]
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| − | * [[Theory of evolution]]
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| − | * [[Macroevolution]]
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| − | * [[Tasmania]]
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| − | * [[Olympics]]
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| − | * [[Richard Dawkins]]
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| − | * [[Alfred Kinsey]]
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| − | * [[Dendrochronology]]
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| − | * [[ABC]]
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| − | * [[Monopoly (board game)]]
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| − | * [[Fossil fuel]]
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| − | * [[Ben Stein]]
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| − | * [[Deoxyribonucleic acid]]
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| − | * [[shilling]]
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| − | * [[John Howard]]
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| − | * [[Transitional form]]
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| − | * [[Mass transportation]]
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| − | == My Wiki style ==
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| − | Here I explain some of my Wiki editing style and why I do what I do. This is my opinion on how it should be done, but there's no right nor wrong here—it's just my opinion.
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| − | '''I put space around headings''': I put a space between the equals signs and text at each end of a heading ({{tt|<nowiki>== Heading ==</nowiki>}}, not {{tt|<nowiki>==Heading==</nowiki>}}), and (normally) a blank line above and below a heading. The software produces the same results whether you do this or not, but it helps a little with clarity and that is the way that the software does it if you click the "+" tab at the top of a talk page. Removing the spaces once they are there does not save space, I presume, because any saving in byte size of that article is swamped by the extra record(s) created in the database for that edit.
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| − | '''I break up blocks of text''': On article pages, I usually prefer to put every sentence in a separate edit-window paragraph. Ordinary paragraphs without a blank line between them (this doesn't work with paragraphs started with colons, asterisks, or hashes) are run together into the same paragraph by the software anyway, so it makes no difference to the displayed page. But it makes the diffs smaller and simpler (and possibly saves database space?) when editing the page, especially when changing the order of sentences around. And if a paragraph has a lot of references, which are usually at the ends of sentences, it helps a little when reading the source to start new sentences on new lines. I don't specially break break up existing paragraphs written by others, but will sometimes break them up a bit when I'm doing other editing.
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| − | == Muddled thinking ==
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| − | An anti-creationist comment on a blog, apparently under the self-delusion that this demonstrates something odd about creationist thinking. I think it says more about ''his'' thinking, or lack thereof!
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| − | {{QuoteBox|So, creationists claim that fossil evidence does not support evolution, but then they use fossil evidence to support creationism. I needed a good laugh to start off the day.}}
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| − | Another web-site, despite at times saying complimentary things about me, twisted my comments [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Talk:School_prayer&diff=399475&oldid=399211 here], wherein I said
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| − | {{QuoteBox|You say that school prayer "...would leave out in the cold most Hindus, by implying that there was only one God", but don't explain what is wrong with this. To put it another way, what is wrong with a teacher telling the truth by saying that there is one God?}}
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| − | ...to be "paraphrased" as me saying...
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| − | {{QuoteBox|How could anyone possibly object to people telling Hindus that their beliefs are [deleted]? Obviously my irrational superstitions are correct, and it is imperative that everyone understand this.}}
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| − | It would seem that the Really Weird people of that site consider it unacceptable for a Christian to put their views, for fear of offending someone with different views. Yet members of this same web-site obviously have no qualms about rubbishing ''my'' beliefs (and note, not just claiming that I'm incorrect, but in a derogatory way), by name-calling and straight-out insults, such as:
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| − | * "PJR is a [deleted] idiot---i've alway said it, and always will. I don't give a flying [deleted] how amiable he is, he's an inflexible dolt." [Despite "always" saying it, this same person thought that I was a good choice for Conservapedia sysop<!-- talk archive 1 -->—PJR]
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| − | * "nutcase"
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| − | * "despicable anti-science zealot"
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| − | The hypocrisy is astounding. But then what should you expect from atheists and their kind? Truth and fairness have no foundation in atheistic beliefs (and even Richard Dawkins agrees with that).
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