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The conservapedia does not inveigh agains the misapplication of "relativity"
This is a sad, sad list. It never ceases to amaze me how
people confuse relativity and relativism: moral,
philosophical or other. No, Virginia, relativity does not
tell us that everything is relative: sure, some things turn
out to depend on the observer -- but we already knew that
some things were observer-dependent: velocity, for example!
Relativity simply changed _which_ things we think depend on
the observer and which things are the same for every
observer. If anything, relativity of is a theory of absolutes.