Taxonomy

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_quicksilver.net.nz>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 22:14:06 +1200


Alex Ferguson:

>You're telling me flat out that for any _single_ animal, it can only
>be "correctly explained" in one magical system. If it's an "animist
>animal", then the theists need hardly bother having a myth for it at all,
>since they'll ipso facto be "wrong", or at the very least, "less correct".

How does that follow? Theists, like everybody else, have myths about alien otherworlds.

>To put it mildly! Not to say, wrongly... I double-checked this, and
>AR is pretty darn clear that there is _one_ Linnaean species name of
>horse.

A God Learner taxonomy. 'nuff said.

--Peter Metcalfe

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