Conservapedia ja maailman historia

Näin sairaslomalla ollessa on aikaa tuhlata kallisarvoista aikaa Conservapedian parissa. Jatkoin historian tutkimista. Kiinan menneisyys sisältää paljon faktaa. Mutta myös outoutta.

China's Contributions

What inventions and innovations do we owe to ancient China? A great deal: paper, the magnetic compass, the umbrella, the fan, spaghetti, the fixed rudder, acupuncture, bamboo cultivation, harvesting silk, and perhaps the first planetarium. Later, in A.D. 850, China invented gunpowder, which also popularized fireworks.

Ruuti keksittiin vasta ilotulitteiden jälkeen?

The ancient world had several founders of great religions, but only one performed miracles: Jesus of Nazareth. His resurrection is the single greatest event in the history of the world.

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The greatest writing in the history of the world is the Gospel of John, the teenager whom Jesus loved like a son. John revised and perfected this Gospel for many decades before releasing it to others.

Ymmärrettävästi olen henkilökohtaisesti erimieltä.

Myöhemmin sarjassa muistellaan tieteen kehitystä I maailmansodan jälkeen. Suhteellisuusteoria saa osakseen nyrpistelyä.

Just as “social Darwinism” arose from Darwinism, many seized upon the theory of relativity to apply it in a vague way to morality and social issues. “All things are relative” became popular as atheists and others used relativity to attack Christian values. There remains enormous political support for the theory of relativity that has nothing to do with physics, and Congress continues to spend billions of dollars unsuccessfully searching for particles predicted by the theory of relativity.

RationalWiki vertailee enemmän Conservapedian suhteellisuuskammoa.

Talvisota päättyi Suomen kannalta nolosti.

By mid-September, Stalin was grabbing eastern Poland and also annexing Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. Finland put up an awesome struggle against Stalin, and the typically cold winter helped its defenses. But by March 1940, the massive Soviet army had taken Finland.

Teach the controversy!