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From: <the_logos@www.achaea.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 09:07:53 +0000 (GMT)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, J C Lawrence wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 23:42:30 +0000 (GMT)
> the logos <the_logos@www.achaea.com> wrote:
>
> > I'd certainly be curious to know how dragons don't violate current
> > scientific knowledge.
>
> Several SF authors have postulated the necessary biochem to support
> dragon-like creatures (ie flying lizards that breath fire).
> Typically I recally this involving low-grav planets, silicate
> chemistry (versus carbon), short life spans, and rather than direct
> fire-breathing, being much closer to spitting flaming liquids (cf
> bombadier beetles) which combust outside of the creature (again,
> compare several insects)..
Right. So, in fact, not the sort of dragons in the sort of settings most
people use.
> > Likewise with, say, reincarnation.
>
> The main attacks on reincarnation is conservation of energy, Occam's
> razor, and lack of verifiably observed evidence. I'm not aware of
> any explicit violation of currently postulated principles, if only
> for the fact that most conceptions of the "soul" don't intersect
> physical reality much outside of questions of identity.
Quite.
--matt
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