Bacteria evolve; Conservapedia demands recount

David Hobby hobbyd at newpaltz.edu
Tue Jul 1 10:33:43 PDT 2008


Alberto Monteiro wrote:
...
> I guess the only vaguely math related topic in the Bible
> is the approximation pi ~ 3.

But how can we do mathematics without divine guidance!?

>>> Conservapedia is quite poor in Math articles.
>> Hence the question:  How blatantly can they steal content
>> they want from other sources, just slapping it on their
>> site?  It seems their best chance of getting comprehensive
>> coverage.
>>
> If you consider that Wikipedia's math content was stolen
> from Eric W. Weisstein's MathWorld, who, in his turn, also
> stole from voluntary contributions, then I think it's fine.

In my experience, the two differ a fair amount.  To be fair,
there are only so many ways to write entries on mathematical
entities.

				---David

What about large cardinals, isn't gluttony a sin?


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