> >Alex Ferguson:
> From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_bigfoot.com>
> >What really bugs me about the above, however, is how shamelessly
> >top-down it is. We don't have to know thing one about the Sylilans
> >to make statements about their gods, we can deduce it all from cosmic
> >first principles.
>
> I didn't deduce it from cosmic first principles, I simply took
> the most effective way of refuting your notion that Odayla was
> a great god among the Sylilans. That you don't like how it
> is done is simply tough luck.
Without wanting to get too heavily involved, the "deducing from cosmic
first principles does sound very very God-learnerish to me. Heck, if
we can do it based on the information we have, they could have.
Harry.