Conservapedia's Atheism

There is an article on Conservapedia on atheism located here:

http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism

The reason I mention this article is that often articles that are popular at Conservapedia climb up the Google rankings quite fast and currently this article has been featured on Conservapedia's main page. Accordingly, I was wondering if anyone was interested in attempting a rebuttal of this article or at least hitting upon various points of it and posting it somewhere prominently on the internet.

I don't have a beef with this kind of a contrary voice. In the dialectical market place of ideas, truth will always shake out dishonesty.

You may want to compare conservapedia's account with Wikpedia's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism

Conservapedia is frank about its point of view, and its seems to be oriented primarily to religious fundamentalist home schoolers. Although it tries to appear scholarly and objective, the effect is to undermine its own presumption of a commitment to integrity, not unlike the methodology promoted by holocaust revisionists and tobacco lobbyists-- an appearance of the search for truth rather than the substance of the search for truth.

It's editors will reject any kind of rebuttal within its own pages, and I'm not sure that a rebuttal outside its pages will do much good.

I note that atheists according to this article are often the product of bad fathers + good times + depravity.

According to the Conservapedia entry on Copernicus:

"The reception to his work was initially positive within the Catholic Church (contrary to popular belief, Galileo was not persecuted for supporting the Copernican theory, but because he was disrespectful to the Pope). However, the reaction was negative among Protestants who felt it conflicted with some literal interpretations of the Bible, such as the account of how Joshua benefited from the sun standing still as it passed over the earth. "And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day." Joshua 10:13. But there were few Protestants in Poland then (or now), and Copernicus died without much controversy. To this day, most Protestant countries reject the Copernican theory."

What is Conservapedia?

"Conservapedia is a much-needed alternative to Wikipedia, which is increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American. On Wikipedia, many of the dates are provided in the anti-Christian "C.E." instead of "A.D.", which Conservapedia uses. Christianity receives no credit for the great advances and discoveries it inspired, such as those of the Renaissance. Read a list of many Examples of Bias in Wikipedia."

There you have it, folks. Galileo was persecuted for dissing the Pope, but now everything's hunky-dory (btw, the entry on Galileo says the exact opposite). If you are Catholic it's now kosher (pun intended) to believe the earth revolves around the sun, but not if you are Protestant.