From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Sun 08 May 1994 - 20:00:46 EEST
Sandy Petersen:
> For that matter, there are red-skinned entities that come from
> the Red Moon, but are not necessarily related to the Red Vadeli.
There are? Who, humans, the fabled Moon Elves, or...?
Bryan J. Maloney:
> It is UNCERTAINTY that drives science. It is technocracy that posits that
> our current knowledge can "solve everything". The Godlearners had an
> _a priori_ "system" and they tried to shove all Glorantha into it.
Oh? Why do you say that? On the basis of the scanty information on them, one could equally well assume their theories were arrived at experimentally. While they certainly made some attempts to change reality to fit some of their theories, this isn't Platonic thinking if you can actually _change_ reality, rather than just ignoring the discrepancies/fiddling the experiments.
Jim DeGon:
> Glorantha is absolutely, positively and with no doubt a Creationist
> world with _no_ evolutionary history as we 20th century "humans" know
> it. There is no point in classifying families in this manner.
But there is "evolution" of a sort: just a very bizarre sort. The most significant factoid about mythical evolution in Glorantha is that is both convergent and divergent, which screws up a tree-shaped taxonomy.
Dave Camoirano:
> I believe that Gloranthan creatures defy terran classifications. Humans in
> Glorantha are NOT homo sapiens. That is a terran classification that does not
> apply here. Gloranthan scholars (you Lhankor Mhy know who you are) would most
> likely use runes to classify various species.
Yup, I think this is a good way too: after all, it reflect their mythic "descent".
Alex.
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