A party of biologists studying a troupe of macaques that have colonised an abandoned scrapyard stumble across a functional refrigerator,one of their number suggest that members of the macaque troupe may have inadvertently assembled the device while playfully tinkering with the available scrap.His colleagues naturally pour scorn on the idea maintaining that despite the isolated state of the location it is far more likely that humans are responsible for both the manufacture and the transport of fridge to its present location.
They voice the opinion that monkeys simply lack the intellectual wherewithal to ever(even with all the time and luck in the world) produce even a suboptimal refrigerator.
Would our lone dissenter be justified in referring to such reasoning as a human of the gaps argument?
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