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anglagard
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Message 88 of 148 (339101)
08-10-2006 10:07 PM
Reply to: Message 85 by randman
08-10-2006 8:24 PM


Re: Ad hoc explanations
Dragons are universally claimed to have been observed in cultures around the world. Keep in mind that despite embellishments and tales, there are consistent accounts around the world that show nothing more than seeing a dinosaur-type of creature.
There are a lot of stories people have told in the past, some are even told today. UFOs, Bigfoot/Yeti, Loch Ness, magical crystal powers, milk-drinking cow statues, ad infinitum. All have many 'witnesses.' Does that mean all stories, however fanciful, now and in the past are true?
Where is the physical evidence of all these 'San Antonio dinosaurs?' Is bigfoot intentionally hiding the evidence with the conivance of his buddy the Abonimable Snowman? Froissart is considered far more reputable a historian than Geoffrey of Monmouth, yet he had tales of some count turning into a bear at will, supposedly collaborated by witnesses. Because he said it does that mean you believe it? Was the plague caused by evil vapors? Are there four elements? Is the earth really flat? Numerically a lot more authorities than dragon witnesses said such was true.
That is until some people discovered science and demanded physical evidence of such wild assertions.
I think you may benefit from a good application of leeches to cure you of such melancholy vapors that seem to cause a belief in magical dragons.

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anglagard
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Message 91 of 148 (339107)
08-10-2006 10:48 PM
Reply to: Message 90 by randman
08-10-2006 10:25 PM


Re: Ad hoc explanations
People tell for centuries of seeing dinosaur-type creatures, with fewer reports as time goes on, and lo and behold, we find thousands of fossils indicating such creatures did live.....hmmm,.....but somehow we are suppossed to discount the eyewitness accounts despite a mountain of physical evidence such creatures lived?
Sure, show me one fossil of a flying dragon. I dont mean one of those anorexic pterosaurs, puny archeropteryx, or unwinged Kimodos. I mean a real pot-bellied, fire breathing, treasure-hoarding, real magical mythical dragon like in Pern, Smaug, or Puff.
Unicorn, cyclops, and multi-headed hydra fossils will receive extra credit.

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anglagard
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Message 98 of 148 (339123)
08-11-2006 2:36 AM
Reply to: Message 95 by randman
08-10-2006 11:30 PM


Absolute Faith in Past Testimony
There are tons of historical accounts of dragons, and not all some sort of mystical creature, but many sightings of large reptilian creatures and some of small, that match very well with dinosaurs. These accounts are extremely widespread and in near every culture, and to continue to ignore them is absurd.
As previously pointed out, your assertions concerning the absolute and unquestioning belief in accounts concerning dragons is off topic. If you would like, please start a thread about how all past human testimony is always more reliable than any common sense explanation concerning physical evidence in any historical narrative of perceived truth.
Just remember, all past accounts of reality from all cultures would then be fair game. If one chooses to defend personal narrative as the sole guide to historical knowledge on one particular topic, one then is also justly compelled to logically defend the entire content of all such narratives, lest one be guilty of quote mining.
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