Difference between revisions of "Conservapedia Commandments"

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The Conservapedia Commandments suffer from a fatal flaw.
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#REDIRECT [[Conservapedia:Commandments]]
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The first commandment is ''"1 -  Everything you post must be true and '''verifiable'''. "''
 
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However, as a website dedicated to promoting Christian Values and Christian theology in both an encyclopedia and on the internet as a whole this suffers from a serious logical error.
 
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"Verifiable" is defined by Webster's Dictionary as the following:
 
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1. capable of being verified; "a verifiable account of the incident"
 
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2. capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation
 
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"Verify" is defined by Webster's Dictionary as the following:
 
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1. to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
 
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2. to ascertain the truth or correctness of, as by examination, research, or comparison: to verify a spelling.
 
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3. to act as ultimate proof or evidence of; serve to confirm.
 
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4. Law.
 
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a. to prove or confirm (an allegation).
 
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b. to state to be true, esp. in legal use, formally or upon oath.
 
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However, Christianity, the Bible, and the word of God cannot be verified as true. Therefore any Christian related articles on the Website are a violation of the first commandment of Conservapedia.
 

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