Re: Avian ratiocination

Matt Silberstein <RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:30:29 -0700 (PDT), in talk.origins , Chris
<chris.linthompson@xxxxxxxxx> in
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wrote:

[snip]

1. If you *swallow* something, it does not make you choke. The object
has passed into your esophagus.
2. You can choke on items considerably smaller than what you can
swallow, and the speed at which it enters the trachea is immaterial.
3. No sensible engineer would design a crucial life-support system
with such a glaring point-failure attribute.

Really? I think we can probably find quite a few examples of engineers
designing, and people building, things with glaring point-failure
errors.

[snip]

To be fair, he did say *sensible* engineers. Anyone who has worked on a
university campus knows that engineers are not often sensible. Or sober.
One of those two, anyway.
--
John S. Wilkins, Philosophy, University of Sydney
scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
But al be that he was a philosophre,
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre

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