Peter Risdon

I have only ever seen one religious objection to the theory of Quantum Mechanics, and that came from an atheist. Einstein famously declared that “He does not throw dice” and the “He” is generally taken to refer to God.
When people say things like this:
To me it seems a contradiction to insist that all things [...]

I generally post from an atheist perspective. This post is no exception.
To the Christians I have debated with, thank you for your courtesy when I have challenged some of the ideas that are dearest to you.
To the Christians of the past, thank you for the cathedrals, churches and art that have filled my mind with [...]

Zombietime has posted a transcript and audio recording from a recent radio broadcast in Berkeley, California. On KFPA’s “Hard Knock Radio”, Hunter College Professor Marimba Ani, whose racial politics amount almost to a separatist programme, was interviewed. She said:
…Who did the financing? … They had a long history, in Chicago. Which brings me to the [...]

Here’s a website full of photographs of Star Wars fans dressed in replicas of Leia’s slave girl metal bikini. Sci Fi fan conventions rehabilitated?

I thought we knew that already.
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Had the grand “Iron Lady” only had the good sense to be a lesbian, the feminist movement would have died a natural death in an uncontrolled chain reaction of spontanious head explosions – but such was not to be.

Antarctic ice is nearly 20% above its average (1979 – 2000) level. As theory suggests should be the case, temperatures have also been consistently below average.
There is just one problem with all this. The effect is exactly opposite of what has been predicted by global warming modelers.

Ariel is said to be one of the luckiest dogs in Australia, traveling [sic] in a Louis Vuitton carrier bag and wearing only Gucci collars.
My dogs run about in fields, crunch beet that’s fallen from the farm trailers and rabbit carcasses left by the shoots, sniff, pee, chase rabbits that avoided the shoots, splash [...]

We have seen elementary policing progress from the deductions of Sherlock Holmes and his dear sidekick right through to the forensic use of the discoveries of Francis Crick and Dr Watson’s namesake. These developments have brought opportunities and challenges in their wake,” [Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith] said.
Would it be cruel to tell her that Sherlock [...]

Otherwise known as mass psychogenic illness (MPI). The overreaction to nut allergies.
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