Re: Weak Vampires?

On Mar 18, 3:20 pm, John Schilling <schil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> When did that ever become the point?  Vampires *are* scientific idiocy,
> and I don't think anyone here has claimed otherwise.  There's a small
> subset of vampire stories that tries to fit them into a purely
scientific
> world view, but for the most part vampires are characters of fantasy,
not
> science fiction.  Magic, and thus scientifically idiotic.  Every bit as
> scientifically idiotic as e.g. Nazgul, and just as fun to tell stories
> about so long as you don't insist on missing the point.

The existence of vampires, like Atlantis, doesn't require magic.

> In particular, it's silly to talk about vampires having evolved.  In
> vampire stories, "intelligent design" is fact, and the only sort of
> science that can be counted on is "creation science".

Be careful. Don't scoff at the precambrian intellegences.