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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9542367" data-attributes="member: 42582">Nothing in any D&D book ever - at least that I'm aware of - suggests that dragon flight is to be explained differently from bird flight.Brining in whether or not birds lay eggs seems to me to be a complete red herring - the fact that birds lay eggs is a banal, common sense fact about them, known to all humans since human began. It has nothing to with assumptions about scientific truth.But nothing in the play of D&D is ever going to require applying Bernoulli's equation to understand bird flight.  Nor biochemistry to understand how gestation of a chick within an egg takes place.Well, I do agree with me. But I don't see this as rational vs magical. Rather, there is nothing in any D&D book I'm aware of that suggests that dragon flight is magical. For instance, anti-magic shells can stop dragon breath, but have never stopped dragon flight.To the best of my  understanding, no mainstream contemporary Catholic philosopher or theologian takes the view that some everyday, commonplace event - like a dragon or a wyvern or a chimera flying, or a giant scorpion respiring, in the world of D&D - is a continuous series of miracles. And philosopher who have appealed to miraculous intervention to explain things like motion, or the coherent correlation of mind and matter, have not done so to explain departures from what otherwise would be the operation of natural law.</blockquote>