Conservapedia - User contributions [en]

Censorship

2007-04-10T02:35:07Z

Bush4ever:

'''Censorship''' is the act of withholding information from a larger audience by a group of people or a single person who has the power to do so. Oftentimes it is done for the protection of the ''people'', or to keep the group of people from knowing something bad about the empowered people. Conservapedia is heavily censored in order to maintain a right-wing focus, free of "liberal bias." Incidentally, whilel liberal bias is only suspected in the broader population, conservative bias explicitly enters into the censorship calculus of this website.

{{stub2}}

Koran

2007-04-10T02:33:04Z

Bush4ever:

The '''Koran''', also called the '''Qur'an''' (القرآن in [[Arabic]]) is the sacred scripture of [[Islam]]. It is analogous to the [[Bible]] for [[Christian|Christians]]. It, along with its Christian anologue, is unburdened by the weight of factual evidence of its validity.

The Qur'ān [1] (Arabic: القرآن ‎al-Qur’ān, literally "the recitation"; also called القرآن الكريم ‎ al-Qur’ān al-Karīm "The Noble Qur'ān"; also transliterated as Quran, Koran, and Al-Quran) is the central religious text of Islam. Muslims believe the Qur'an to be the book of Divine guidance and direction for Mankind.

Muslims believe the Qur'ān, in its original Arabic, to be the literal word of God[2] that was revealed to Muhammad over a period of several years[3] until his death, and believe it to be God's final revelation to humanity[4][5]. Muslims regard the Qur'ān as a continuation of other divine messages that started with those revealed to Adam — the first prophet — and including the Suhuf-i-Ibrahim (Scrolls of Abraham/Ibrahim)[6], the Tawrat (Torah)[7][8], the Zabur (Psalms)[9][10], and the Injil (Gospel)[11][12][13], in between. The aforementioned books are recognized in the Qur'ān. [14][15]Muslims are directed to follow the Qurʾān — the last and final, completely untainted (with God promising to protect it: "Indeed : It is We Who have sent down the Dhikr [the Qur'ān] and surely, We will guard it [from corruption]" [16][17]) message from God.

The Qurʾanic verses were originally memorized by Muhammad's companions as Muhammad recited them, with some being written down by one or more companions on whatever was at hand, from stones to pieces of bark. The collection of the Qur'ān compilation took place under the Caliph Abu Bakr (less than 10 years after Muhammad's death), this task being led by Zayd ibn Thabit Al-Ansari. "The manuscript on which the Quran was collected, remained with Abu Bakr till he passed away, and then with 'Umar (the second Caliph) until he passed away, and finally it remained with Hafsa bint Umar (Umar's daughter)."

[[Category:Book]]
[[Category:Book of Worship]]
[[Category:Religion]]

Date of creation

2007-04-10T02:31:25Z

Bush4ever:

Calculating the '''date of creation''' has, unfortunately, exercised many minds for hundreds of years.

== Basis of calculation ==

The Bible contains [[chronogenealogies]] from Adam to Abraham, listing the age at which each person in the genealogy gave birth to the next person in the list, thus allowing by simple addition a determination of how many years passed between [[creation story|creation]] and Abraham. There are other chronological indications also, allowing that calculation to be extended into the times of the kings, when the dates can be correlated with other events in history for which the absolute date is known. By this means, in theory, one can calculate the date of creation.

There are, however, some uncertainties in this. For example, Genesis lists the age of Terah when the first of his sons was born, but was Abraham this son, or the second or third son?
Different researchers have proposed different answers to this and similar problems, but none of these problems change the result by a very significant amount.

An objection that has often been raised is whether the chronogenealogies were ''intended'' to be used this way, or whether, for example, generations have been missed.
[[Henry Morris]], a pioneer of modern creationism, allowed for the possibility of gaps in the genealogies, but claimed that it was unreasonable to stretch the date back further than about 10,000 B.C.
In more recent times, however, creationists have concluded that there is no reason to think that there are gaps, and this view is supported by the consensus of the experts, according to [[James Barr]], then regius professor of Hebrew at [[Oxford University]], and not a young-Earth creationist (he also wrote a book attacking [[biblical inerrancy]]), who wrote in 1984: "… probably, so far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or Old Testament at any world-class university who does not believe that the writer(s) of Genesis 1–11 intended to convey to their readers the ideas that: … the figures contained in the Genesis genealogies provided by simple addition a chronology from the beginning of the world up to later stages in the biblical story." <ref>Quoted in [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1606/ Biblical chronogenealogies], by Jonathan Sarfati.</ref>

Old-earth creationists, prompted by a desire to harmonise the Bible with secular dating methods, do not accept this date, proposing that there may be gaps in the genealogies.<ref>[http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/other_papers/primeval_chronology.shtml Are There Gaps in the Biblical Genealogies?], by William Henry Green.</ref>

== Calculated dates ==

The best known date of creation is the one calculated by Archbishop [[James Ussher]] in the 17th century - namely 6:00 p.m. Saturday, [[October 22]], [[4004]] BC.<ref>The Annals of the World, by James Ussher.</ref> However, only the year was based on the Biblical ages; the date and time were based on other considerations. Sir [[Isaac Newton]] defended Ussher's date. Another to calculate the date of creation was [[Johannes Kepler]], who worked it out to be 3992 B.C.

But such calculations in fact date from at least the Middle Ages, and offer a range of dates from around 5000 to 4000 BC. Judaic tradition (to which the Old Testament of course belongs) reckons the date of creation at 3760 BC.

Based mainly on geological dating methods, however, modern scientific research generally dates the formation of the Earth to around 4.5 billion (4.5 * 10<sup>9</sup>) years ago.

== Notes ==
<small><references /></small>

[[Category:Creationism]]

Feminism

2007-04-10T02:28:52Z

Bush4ever:

Feminism is a philosophy which argues for gender equality.

Roots of the movement in the United States and the United Kingdom include the [[Women's Suffrage]] movement of the early 1900's and the [[Women's Liberation]] (or "Second Wave Feminist") movement of the 1960's and 1970's.

An [[Equal Rights Amendment]] was proposed in the US in 1972, but was unratified. Opponents of the amendment cited the following problems: the integration of single-sex schools; the possible recognition of homosexual marriage; and the revocation of laws that protect women in dangerous jobs, like factory or mining work.

The feminist movement in the West evolved in the 1980s with the rise of [[Post-Feminism]] which stresses that women have many rights that go unrecognized in everyday life and in the American legal structure.

Second Wave Feminism has made a resurgence in 1990s and early years of 21st century as the movement is spreading internationally in [[Asia]] and the [[Middle East]]. During the adminstration of [[Bill Clinton]] these latter-day feminists showed a remarkable ability to overlook the womanizing behavior of the President to focus on his ostensible support for the federal funding of their sundry issues.

==Quotations==

The English novelist and critic [[Rebecca West]] said:
''
"I myself have never been able to find out what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."''<ref>http://www.answers.com/topic/rebecca-west</ref>

==See also==
*[[Gender equality]]
*[[Equal pay for equal work]]

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
*[http://www.feministezine.com/feminist/ The Feminist eZine] Archive of articles about Feminist History.