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Re: Is lgbt dead in the water? & Is religion dead in the water?
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Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:48:21 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
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> > > This is where your fallacy lies. Since you 'live the science' you can't
> > > accept that there might be something outside the science, today or even in
> > > the future. You can't accept the 'magic' that may be in the system.
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> > Instead, you're asking us to accept on faith the claim that something
> > supernatural might exist. I do not accept that claim on faith; if you have
> > evidence of this "something outside the science," then by all means let's
> > see it! . ¬It's not sufficient to say "we don't understand X therefore X
> > must be magic." That's nothing more than argument from ignorance (aka God
> > of the Gaps). In order to make a claim that magic, or a soul, or a divine
> > hand is at work in a given system, one must provide evidence that this is
> > the case. Lacking such evidence, the best one can offer is a leap of faith,
> > which some people (like me, for instance) reject as an explanatory model of
> > the universe.
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> Right.
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> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
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> - Arthur C. Clarke
Also in Babylon 5 with the Technomages.
:)
Love that JMS...
So my friend and I were talking the other day about Clarke, Asimov, Chalker,
Heinlen, etc...
Can anyone name a really good science-fiction author that was born, say, after
1960?
I dunno, maybe it's me but most sci-fi writers seem to attach their boat to a
chain, like Star Trek or Star Wars these days.
ANyway, throwing it out there 'cause I'm reading Clancy right now but want to
get back into some good sci-fi without rereading 'the classics'.
Dave K
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Message has 5 Replies:
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| (...) Not without doing some digging(0). Plus it varies according to taste. Lately I like the "killer B's"...(1) they all are within a "few" years of that mark, as compared to the grand masters you name (whether I'd put Chalker up there is a (...) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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