Having ensured that House would be saved on the DVR, my son (a college sophomore) and myself watched Cavemen and enjoyed it as much as any other new show. I am a dialog fan – don’t like slap-sticky stuff or gimmick shows – and found the jokes witty. Another show we both enjoyed was The Big Bang Theory. Did you get a chance to catch that Phil?

Jim from KSC

We are the Cro Magnons,my friend/
Will this confusion never end?/
Neanderthal’s the other one./
That’s the gene-pool that’s done./
Sometimes blind evolution/
Weeds out the smart ones/
From the world.

New catch-phrase, relating to fraternization between cavemen and homo-sapiens: “Keep your penis in your genus.” (I laughed, even though we’re actually both in the genus, homo-.)

I’d say overall the show had an efficiency of about 80-82% in the rating system I just made up where,

Eff. = [CPI - (JBS+F)]/CPI, and

CPI = Comedy Potential In
JBS = Jokes that Bombed or were Stupid
F = Friction

Cavemen exist (Premise 1) & evolution exist (P2) are Independent claims not logically connected.

Ie. There could be evolution but no cavemen (& for most of Erath’s long geological history this was indeed the case!)

Or equally, there could be cavemen existing but NOT having evolved (eg. you could say the Republican Party & Religious Wrong are living proof of that now! ) Or less humerouslty that thecavemen were aliens from anotherpklanet were theywereengineered by anotherspecies or (blech!) God made ‘em to foool us or whatever else ..

Actually both propositions are, broadly speaking, true – cavemen exist as does evolution & cavemen as “missing link” are one pice of evidence among a great many others for demonstrating the reality of evolution.

Hope that’s clarified for y’all

“Also, I find the caveman’s logic good:
-If you suppose that cavemen don’t exist
-AND you think evolution doesn’t exist
-THEN you think cavemen never existed”

Seems like a poor inference and consequent non-sequiteur (does not follow by my logic.

The premise being

1) cavemen don’t exist

NOT relating to premise 2

2) you think evolution doesn’t exist

in any reasonably connected fashion. (eg. if there were caveman then there was evolution.)

Further logic would argue that in real-world context both are false premises based on evidence clearly showing both Cavemen (defined as both people living in caves now, historically and prehistorically and previous human sub-species eg. neandertals) and evolution are supported by numerous lines of evidence and established as in broad essence accurate. So to think either cavemen or evolution doesn’t exist is taking unsupported, falsified claims over demonstated and confirmed claims.

but a-n-y-h-o-w …