Originally posted by Twisterdog
Well, actually, if you will read our analogies again, no one compared chickens to humans at all. Soledad compared an egg to a chicken. I, being hungrier or perhaps crasser, compared an omelette to fried chicken. We were comparing different stages of development of a chicken to each other .... no where did we compare humans to chickens. Small point, I know ... but I think it's important to understand the intended analogy.
I actually agree with you on most points, Twisterdog, but I have to object to your comparison of an omelette to fried chicken, as opposed to Soledad's egg to a chicken.

If an egg is allowed to develop naturally, without human intervention, it will usually become a chick. A chicken, on the other hand, is unlikely to become an omelette or fried chicken without human intervention, so I don't agree that these are different stages of a chicken's development. They are what can happen to a chicken, just as a fetuscan be aborted, which is also human intervention, and not a normal development.

Anyway, just MHO. For the most part I couldn't agree more with what you're saying, Twisterdog.