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- From: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Men Evolved from Women
- Message-ID: <eFcZVB1w165w@kalki33>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 08:24:25 EST
- References: <1992Dec17.140138@IASTATE.EDU>
- Reply-To: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
- Organization: Kalki's Infoline BBS, Aiken, SC, USA
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- kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub) writes:
-
- > > > To make a very long story very very short: the primates were here
- > > > before us, and they created us in their image.
- > >
- > > No. Biologically, humans are primates, so the statement that primates
- > > were here before humans is logically invalid.
- >
- > Sorry Kalki, you have that backwards. Let me rephrase the comment above:
- > Planes were around before jets.
-
- No, this statement is invalid unless you specify what kind of planes.
- The author didn't do that (at least not in the fragmented post I saw).
-
- You can't say "class precedes element of class." You can only say
- "element A precedes element B."
-
- In any case, humans have been around since the creation of the planet,
- as long as any other life form on earth. The whole argument is bogus
- anyway. (Go ahead, jump on it! :-))
-
- > > No. The most comprehensive explanation wins, not the simplest.
- >
- > No. The simplest comprehensive explanation wins. Any explanation that is
- > comprehensive looses automatically. If there is no comprehensive explanation
- > go find one, don't pick the "most comprehensive".
-
- No. It's like this:
-
- Most comprehensive = guaranteed to explain the phenomenon completely.
- Simplest = not guaranteed to explain the phenomenon.
-
- It is the comprehensiveness, not the simplicity, of the explanation that
- is necessary and sufficient to explain the phenomenon. Simplicity is
- neither necessary nor sufficient to do this. Comprehensiveness is the
- substance, and simplicity is just fluff.
-
- Sincerely,
- Kalki Dasa
-
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