second dream team

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 22 Sep 2008, 20:46 · from 2008-September.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:46:42 -0700
Subject: (urth) second dream team
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:23 PM, <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:

> So you are arguing that all life that is native to Urth is compatible _in
> the sense that we are talking about_?
>
> For instance, mollusks and vertebrates, here in this world, both have
> blood. The blood of vertebrates is based upon iron: the blood of mollusks
> is based upon copper. Are you saying that it is different on Urth, then?
> That the two kingdoms use the same kind of blood?
>
> If I understand you correctly, you are arguing that *this* World here does
> not have a creator.
>

That would be a very odd thing for me, as an adult convert to
Catholicism, to argue!

I will point out, to begin with, that at least some of those copper-blooded
mollusks are edible by iron-blooded humans. I don't particularly care for
them myself, but there it is. We couldn't accept a blood transfusion from
a lobster, but then I suspect it would be touch-and-go (at best) with blood
from a chimp.

I am not suggesting that the Briahverse's Creator made all life of
interchangeable parts. Rather, I am suggesting that He made it
sufficiently "compatible" that life from one world can eat at least
some of the life from another.

Thus, for example, the Alzabo...

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant
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