(December 3, 2018 at 12:46 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:(December 2, 2018 at 11:52 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: Although I don't agree, I respect your rationale. Photographing a vampire doesn't demonstrate a vampire until you can prove it's a vampire. If not, it could be your friend in a mask playing a practical joke on you. On the day of your "scientific presentation" he shows up in his vampire outfit. You would have to have a "hands on" approach. If you didn't get the blood sucked out of you, then maybe you could continue.
Or if you think it's in a cave, what if it was in bat form. How are you going to know which bat to examine? Go fondle all of them until one tries to kill you?
How do you know it didn't leave the cave altogether, even if by walking through a wall? Maybe it's in a coffin in a hidden chamber and has decided to take a nap for 1000 years. Are you going to wait for it? Aren't vampires also supposed to be immune from reflection, so the camera would be a waste of time anyway.
If it's supernatural, then we can't assume that any of it has to be subject to natural laws.
Your objections could apply equally as well to gravity. We don't know what gravity is, but we do know it's effects and the order displayed. If your objections suggest that we don't know what we're talking about with respect to gravity, I have to suspect there is something wonky with your ideas on this.
Most of the time I agree with you, so just chalk this off me attempting to agree to disagree. You can't equally apply it to "gravity" because we know what gravity is and its impact in the natural world. I don't believe there are too many people out there who would seriously try to challenge Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation. Vampires on the other hand, may not be bound even by gravity, and based on some of the B movies I've seen, they're not assumed to be either.
