Saturday, April 11, 2009

Association FAIL

Posted at CARM on April 11th, 2009. Creationist: Dr.K

Comment:
"Man" is a bit outmoded these days.

But while "man" can refer to people as a category, "Man" is still a small group within a large group called "apes". Sort of like "Fords" are a small group within a large group called "cars".

It IS possible to be both you know.

Dr.K's response:
So suppose we have cars and high speed trains. The apes are cars and humans are high speed trains.

A high speed train is not a car.

It'd be a good metaphor if humans were that much different from other apes - which we're not. I don't ever mistake a Jetta on the street as a high speed train. Do you?

-Erin

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