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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Religious texts talk about the parting of the Red Sea and the Nile turning the color of blood in religious terms. Yet, there are scientific methods that could have caused both (and, I suspect, probably did).
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Perhaps, but the Bible talks about those events in specifically religious terms. So the Bile remains a religious text (or if you are the bent think in these terms, a mythological text). The key is how they are presented in story, and how the characters understand them. If the text presents them as mystical, then they are mystical.
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And we should probably give up arguing the point in terms of Star Wars, since Lucas retconned the whole "mystical force" thing with his Mitichlorians stuff in the prequels... he himself turned the Force into a scientific principle.
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The whole Mitochondria... er mitichlorians is kind of a weird thing.. yes it put some scientific trappings around it, but not really. I mean yes, you might measure a Jedi's power with them, but you still have the issue of Force Ghosts.
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Bill