Everything Burns

Category Mistake

   Mon, March 27, 2006 - 7:54 PM
One of the most intelligent things recently said about the so-called debate over the teaching of creationism alongside evolution in schools comes from the Archbishop of Canterbury, who says[1] that to treat creationism as a theory like evolution is to make a category mistake[2].

It's interesting to see how this statement gets interpreted by the various media outlets[3] (who make a living off of category mistakes), with headlines like "Archbishop calls creationism a mistake" to "A Blessing for Evolution".

[1] www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03...olution/
[2] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_mistake
[3] news.google.com/news



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