Haha, it's true, the Conservapedia really is quite a slanted read, e.g. Despite censorship of dissent about relativity, evidence contrary to the theory is discu

Haha, it's true, the Conservapedia really is quite a slanted read, e.g. Despite censorship of dissent about relativity, evidence contrary to the theory is discussed outside of liberal universities. Talk about skewed. Of course there's more to explain about the physical world, and of course new discoveries can and do change everything we thought we knew. Rational scientists and laypeople must be open-minded...but we all gotta have a quack-filter too. It's pretty funny to attack science on its strengths like that. It gets better: Some liberal politicians have extrapolated the theory of relativity to metaphorically justify their own political agendas. For example, Democratic presidential candidate 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. Reading the original text which they are referring just saddens me, Conservapedia is taking issue with a metaphor describing layers of complexity in the nature of subjugation of women: Laurence H. Tribe: "The Roe v. Wade opinion ignored the way in which laws regulating pregnant women may shape the entire pattern of relationships among men, women, and children. It conceptualized abortion not in terms of the intensely public question of the subordination of women to men through the exploitation of pregnancy, but in terms of the purportedly private question of how women might make intimately personal decisions about their bodies and their lives. That vision described a part of the truth, but only what might be called the Newtonian part. ... [A] change in the surrounding legal setting can constitute state action that most threatens the sphere of personal choice. And it is a 'curved space' perspective on how law operates that leads one to focus less on the visible lines of legal force and more on how those lines are bent and directed by the law's geometry." I find it ironic and sad that both the science metaphor that they don't like and the woman's rights topic it addresses are both issues the religious right has an extremely poor track record accepting, even today, 2010. If someone disagrees that pregnancy and childcare have historically made the sexes unequal then perhaps they should say so and back it up (good luck) instead of freak out about a metaphor. http://conservapedia.com/Theory_of_relativity#Lack_of_evidence_for_Relativity http://conservapedia.com/Theory_of_relativity#Lack_of_eviden...