“If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?”

“If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?”

“If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?”

“Why doesn’t the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?”

“You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.”

“Thinking is computation, I claim, but that does not mean that the computer is a good metaphor for the mind. The mind is a set of modules, but the modules are not encapsulated boxes or circumscribed swatches on the surface of the brain. The organization of our mental modules comes from our genetic program, but that does not mean that there is a gene for every trait or that learning is less important than we used to think. The mind is an adaptation designed by natural selection, but that does not mean that everything we think, feel, and do is biologically adaptive. We evolved from apes, but that does not mean we have the same minds as apes. And the ultimate goal of natural selection is to propagate genes, but that does not mean that the ultimate goal of people is to propagate genes.”

“Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives?”