Conservapedia:Debate Topics

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1. Was world war inevitable?
2. Does "free trade" increase wealth or simply redistribute it?
3. Should the United States have entered World War I?
4. Should the United States have entered World War II?
5. Should the United States have eliminated communism in North Korea as General Douglas MacArthur wanted?
6. Is it even possible to install democracy in a Muslim country?
7. Is democracy even possible in Iraq?
8. Should President Jimmy Carter (at the urging of Henry Kissinger) have allowed the deposed Shah of Iran to enter the United States in 1979 to receive medical treatment, over the objections of the Iranian people?
9. Should we have given the Panama Canal back to Panama?
10. Should government allow an unchecked economy, or are regulations necessary in private business?
11. Should the United States leave the United Nations?
12. Crusades... Good or Bad?
13. Is the theory of macroevolution true?
14. Does bias impair Wikipedia's reliability?
15. Should Creationism/Intelligent design be taught as a scientific alternative to evolution in public schools?
16. Did racism play a role in the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
17. Was the United States right to drop atomic bombs so quickly on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
18. If President Roosevelt had known about the Pearl Harbor attack in advance, would it have been wrong for him to allow the attack in order to wake up the American public and motivate Americans to fight and win the war?|Was it wrong for him to allow the attack in order to wake up the American public and motivate Americans to fight and win the war?|would it have been wrong for him to allow the attack in order to wake up the American public and motivate Americans to fight and win the war?
19. Is gun-control the answer to crimes involving guns?
20. Should the term list entries be included in Conservapedia's entry count?
21. Was American soldier Michael New right to refuse to fight wearing part of a United Nations uniform? See Michael New
22. Henry Ford said, "I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's [darn] is the history we make today." George Santayana said "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Which was closer to being right?
23. Which is a more powerful ideology, Islam or Communism?
24. Should the United States intervene in small countries to defeat communism there?
25. Should public displays of the 10 Commandments be allowed under the constitution?
26. Were the Puritans right to banish (expel) people for religious reasons?
27. Does the high abortion rate among African Americans explain the quadruple extreme premature birth risk among the same population?
28. Was the third crusade successful?
29. How should Conservapedia work to avoid having a conservative bias?
30. Is infinite regression ever valid as a form of reasoning, or acceptable as a way the universe works, or came to be?
31. Is a first cause of a process necessary, always possible, or sometimes impossible?
32. Which has the best philosophy of education: the public school system, private schools, or the home school movement?
33. Can Objectivism develop beyond Ayn Rand's original formulation?
34. Can any man live without some code of morality?
35. Does the universe include everything, or does something outside the universe exist?
36. Is global warming evident, and if so, is this the fault of man, and how must man stop it?
37. Is the Bible a reliable source of history against which one may check all other sources?
38. If the universe is young and it takes light millions of years to reach us from far off stars, how can we see them?
39. Is it wrong to have a Christmas tree?
40. Did God create evil?
41. Should people genetically engineer a cure for homosexuality?
42. Is it possible to be both Jewish and Christian at the same time?
43. Can Conservapedia Succeed?
44. Is Conservapedia fair and balanced?
45. How can we protect Conservapedia by distinguishing real conservative encyclopedia articles from satires written by liberals?
46. Should Bush pardon Scooter Libby?
47. Should the USA and other industrialized nations resume the building of nuclear power plants, an activity that is now effectively suspended?
48. Is the Pope the Antichrist?
49. Is it easier to ask for permission, or for forgiveness?
50. Do hardly any entries on conservapedia cite sources?
51. Which Christian denomination is the most true to the central teachings of Christianity?
52. If Jesus was alive to day, where on the political spectrum would he fall?
53. Should We Support Democrats For Life.org?
54. Women in the Military?
55. Is religion relevant in todays society? / Should Religion Play a Large Role in Modern Societies?
56. Corinthians 11:14 and the traditional image of Jesus
57. A poll requested by Aschlafly regarding the new color format
58. Bible (New and Old Testament) Words of God
59. AntiSemitism
60. Should students learn a foreign language?
61. What exactly is Conservapedia?
62. Quality of References
63. Could God create a rock so heavy that he himself could not lift it?
64. God, Earth and Global Warming
65. Why does the right side of the political spectrum tend to be more religous?
66. If there were no religion, would we find another reason to kill each other?
67. Was the media attention needed?
68. Is NPOV and wiki culture an example of a postmodern culture?
69. Natural Disaster versus Act of God
70. Is Rush Limbaugh in touch with reality, or just an uneducated opinionated conservative mouthpiece ?
71. Conservapedia:Major bias in conservapedia
72. Conservapedia:Why is the evidence in favor of evolution so darn convincing?
73. Is the torture and mass murder of dissidents evil when a Communist leader like Stalin or Pol Pot does it, but not-so-bad if a free-market conservative like Augusto Pinochet or an evangelical Christian conservative like Rios Montt does it?
74. I heard a story on the news about an american company sending international mercenary troops into Iraq. Should American companies be allowed to send their own troops into a war which America is participating in?
75. Why is there something rather than nothng?
76. Conservapedia:What is the Sabbath day?
77. Is it possible to be a conservative and not a religious person or even an atheist?

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