True, but the Mostali and the Malkioni aren't much deterred, and persist in having a reductionist attitude to the Gloranthan otherworld, with no small measure of success. Granted it'd be a contradiction in terms to have a reductionist model of the gods, and still consider them gods. (Also problematic about 'people', but I shan't go there...)
> > I have to entirely disagree. Mad scientists are hardly a fantasy:
> > one needs to work hard to avoid to avoid Richard Dawkins on the
> > telly and in the Sunday supplements...
>
> Somehow my brain had managed to delete all memories of such people when I
> wrote that message. Having said that, there are a number of people who call
> themselves scientists who are no such thing.
Richard Dawkins' problems have nothing to do with him not being a scientist. ;-)
> Science has a very real meaning
> (which I'm sure Alex and many others are aware of...) and it isn't something
> that is practiced anywhere in Glorantha, to the best of my knowledge.
By what reasonable definition are Leonardo and the God Learners not scientists? (Granted we don't know enough about their methods for this to be much more than speculation, but...)
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