www.conservapedia.com

[ZenGum]

By coincidence, Conservapedia just got a mention at New Scientist. They (CP, not NS) not only deny evolution, but also deny relativity, the E = MC2 business.

a page on the site titled "Counterexamples to relativity". It says: "The theory of relativity is a mathematical system that allows no exceptions. It is heavily promoted by liberals who like its encouragement of relativism and its tendency to mislead people in how they view the world."

In a footnote, this comment is followed up by: "Virtually no one who is taught and believes relativity continues to read the Bible, a book that outsells New York Times bestsellers by a hundred-fold."


SNIP


Read further and you will find this astonishing piece of information, clearly the smoking gun of the Einsteinian liberal conspiracy: "Barack Obama helped publish an article by liberal law professor Laurence Tribe to apply the relativistic concept of 'curvature of space' to promote a broad legal right to abortion".

Which is kind of true, although grossly misrepresented.. At the time, BHO was the editor of the journal, and thanks were SOP. The argument in the journal uses relativity as a metaphor or analogy for how every action affects things around it.

Classic, Lookout, even UG, are conservatives. These people are just idiots.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Classic, Lookout, even UG, are conservatives. These people are just idiots.

You won't get much disagreement here.

[tw]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

They (CP, not NS) not only deny evolution, but also deny relativity, the E = MC2 business.

From Scientific American of Aug 2010 entitled "Faith and Foolishness":

Was there suddenly a quantum leap in U.S. science literacy? Sadly no. ...
When presented with the statement "human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals," just 45 percent of respondents indicated "true". Compare this figure with the affirmative percentages in Japan (78), Europe (70), China (69), and South Korea (64). Only 33 percent of Americans agreed that "the universe began with a big explosion."

The article discussed why the National Science Foundation is now avoiding to discuss this.

The National Science Board, which oversees the foundation ... claiming the questions were "flawed indicators of scientific knowledge because responses conflated knowledge and beliefs." In short, if their religious beliefs require respondents to discard scientific facts, then board does not think it is appropriate to expose that truth.