From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Got Milk?
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:09:29 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Lee,
	You have expressed my thought more eloquently and succinctly than I
did.

Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: lee gilliland [mailto:leeandalexis at hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:03 AM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Got Milk?

	Nevertheless, allow me to take your concerns about my credulity
seriously:  I do not believe in the "Shaverian" theory of underground
civilizations populated by dero and tero descendants of the Atlans and
Titans of Greek myth.  Nor do I equate pseduo-science with real science.
However, you appear to believe that pseudo-science is so radioactive that no
one can examine it without becoming hopelessly contaminated by it.  I
disagree.  I believe that the intelligent individual can read (or watch)
pseudo-science and derive entertainment value from it... much as the
intelligent individual can read (or watch) science fiction and derive
entertainment from it without concluding that Thomas J. Whitmore was
President of the United States in 1996.  And there is always the possibility
that a fringe belief will be validated and accepted by serious scientists.
There are multiple examples of this happening in almost all branches of real
science.  Shaverism is almost certainly not likely to be validated by real
science, but (with apologies to William Shakespeare) there are more things
in the world that are dreamed of by your small philosophy, Horatio.
									Your
friend and sparring partner, Lee

And there is also the fact that you can "Believe" for fun - not meaning it,
just playing with ideas (the basis of all good sf).

Your friend and other sparring partner, Lee

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