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An encyclopedia with a politically conservative viewpoint and friendly to creationism and Christianity. The site is partly aimed at homeschooled children from traditional Christian homes. | An encyclopedia with a politically conservative viewpoint and friendly to creationism and Christianity. The site is partly aimed at homeschooled children from traditional Christian homes. | ||
Conservapedia has almost 25,000 users. | Conservapedia has almost 25,000 users. | ||
The site has spawned another couple of sites: | |||
* [[RationalWiki]], dedicated to disputing the various claims of pseudoscience and the anti-science movement, which has a section about the viewpoints presented by Conservapedia. | |||
* [[Liberapedia]], a parody wiki that purports to be a liberal equivalent of Conservapedia. | |||
==Criticisms== | ==Criticisms== | ||
The Young Earth Creationist position of Conservapedia is considered unscientific. Articles about Political Liberals are considered defamatory. The site is considered unobjective generally. Conservapedia is accused of being basically Andrew Schlafly's blog. The site is partly aimed at homeschooled children from fundamentalist Christian homes. Such children are unlikely to see where Conservapedia is considered out of touch with reality. Conservapedia is also aimed at adult American fundamentalist Christians who are discouraged from getting information outside their narrow Christian viewpoint and may not see any problems with | The Young Earth Creationist position of Conservapedia is considered unscientific. Articles about Political Liberals are considered defamatory. The site is considered unobjective generally. Conservapedia is accused of being basically Andrew Schlafly's blog. The site is partly aimed at homeschooled children from fundamentalist Christian homes. Such children are unlikely to see where Conservapedia is considered out of touch with reality. Conservapedia is also aimed at adult American fundamentalist Christians who are discouraged from getting information outside their narrow Christian viewpoint and may not see any problems with Conservapedia. | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||