In message <4.1.19990210161159.00c9d160@kumo.com>, David McFadzean
<david@lucifer.com> writes
>At 05:46 PM 2/10/99 -0500, n cashen wrote:
>>Is there no place in human thought for mythical thinking?
>
>Mythical thinking is fine. Really, given that all explanations
>are stories of some sort what else is there? It is *mystical*
>thinking that raises the ire of skeptics.
And it is the misuse of "mystical" that raises the ire of many quite well-educated but not fetishistically sceptical people. There are few people much *less* mystical than fundamentalists.
-- Robin