Uncommon Descent


8 July 2006

Complete the following word association: Evolution is to Science as XX is to YY

William Dembski

Here’s my proposal:

XX = Paranoid Delusion

YY = Mental Health

I solicit other comparisons for this thread.

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20 Responses

1

Mung

07/08/2006

8:58 am

ok, I thought evolution is science and science is evolution and any attack on one is an attack on the other. So, evolution is to science as science is to evolution.


2

DaveScot

07/08/2006

9:24 am

Evolution is to Science as Mister Ed is to The Kentucky Derby.

Evolution is to Science as Herbie the Love Bug is to The Daytona 500.

Evolution is to Science as Santa Claus is to Mattel, Inc.

Evolution is to Science as a Wooden Nickel is to a Gold Eagle.


3

EJ Klone

07/08/2006

9:48 am

Evolution is to Science as Mercury is to a Hatter.

Evolution is to Science as a Boca Burger is to Meat.


4

tribune7

07/08/2006

11:40 am

Evolution is to science as a cheap tuxedo is to Savile Row (hee hee)


5

GilDodgen

07/08/2006

12:07 pm

XX = Fiction
YY = Reality

XX = Mythology
YY = History

XX = Philosophical Speculation
YY = Engineering


6

Alan Rhoda

07/08/2006

1:04 pm

Hey, Gil, you might want to change your last entry from “philosophical speculation” to just plain “speculation”, “fanciful speculation”, or something like that. Philosophy - good philosophy, that is - is on the side of the angels in the ID debate, as attested by the likes of Bill, Paul Nelson, Jay Richards, etc.

Anyway, here are a couple of my suggestions:

E is to S as Dr. Strangelove is to Einstein.
E is to S as Gilligan is to Admiral Lord Nelson.


7

glennj

07/08/2006

2:04 pm

XX = Ptolemaic Epicycles
YY = Astronomy

XX = Math using Roman Numerals
YY = Development of Calculus

XX = Socialism
YY = Economics

XX = Religious fanaticism
YY = Theology


8

GilDodgen

07/08/2006

4:34 pm

Good point Alan. I had materialistic philosophy in mind, so how about:

XX = Speculation Based on a Commitment to Philosophical Naturalism (a little wordy, but oh well)
YY = Engineering

and I’ll add

XX = Perpetual-Motion Machines
YY = Jet Turbines


9

idadvisors

07/08/2006

5:34 pm

Evo is to science as:

a logician is to a Darwinist.

Monism is to a Platonist.

Perfect circle is to Ockham.

Epicureanism is to a Stoic

Parmenides is to the world of appearance


10

idadvisors

07/08/2006

5:37 pm

Davescot: excellent post, will copy to send to my friends!!


11

idadvisors

07/08/2006

5:39 pm

As Darwin is to a programmer of cnc gantry mill for milling ship propellors


12

Michaels7

07/08/2006

7:36 pm

Good examples…

I’d tweak your example Bill and expand.

E is to S as,
Paranoid Schizophrenia is to Mental Health,
(depending upon the day, hour, or minute, evolution changes and can be quite violent reaction for no logical reason)
or
E is to S as,
Sybil is to Einstein
Two, three, four or more faces of random variation personality vs one logical mind.

or, a historical moment of physical obliteration perhaps more apropos of NDE’s inevitable extinction by way of random mutational hits….

E is to S as,
Shoemaker-Levy Comet is to the Earth

Or in recognitin of Gilder’s enlightened moment,
Evolutionist are to Science as,
Earth and Heaven are to The Living Word, the everlasting I AM.


13

Mung

07/09/2006

8:00 am

Evolution is to Science as aids is to immune system.


14

jerry

07/09/2006

2:00 pm

Evolution is to Science as sophistry is to truth

or

Evolution is to Science as ignorance is to logic

or

Evolution is to Science as prejudice is to evidence


15

Mung

07/09/2006

3:31 pm

Evolution is to Science as gravity is to a flat earth.


16

lucID

07/10/2006

9:06 am

XX = Dr. Suess

YY = Shakespeare

XX = 10-piece Lego set

YY = Great wall of China


17

lucID

07/10/2006

9:13 am

XX = The villiage idiot

YY = Isaac Newton


18

lucID

07/10/2006

9:17 am

XX = Play-dough
YY = Babe Ruth

i.e absolutely no connection


19

Mung

07/10/2006

10:51 am

Evolution is to Science as super glue is to a drunken group of teenagers.


20

mentok

07/10/2006

6:22 pm

XX = death
YY = knowledge