How Different Departments and Disciplines See a Black Cat

  1. Science--looking for a black cat in a dark room.
  2. Psychology--looking for a black cat in a dark room in which there isn't any cat at all.
  3. Philosophy--claiming that you've found a black cat in a dark room in which there isn't any cat at all.
  4. Mathematics--building a room, turning out the lights and then filling it with black cats.
  5. Art--taking a white cat out of a dark room with only a black cat inside.
  6. Secular Humanism--closing the door to the dark room, black cat or not.
  7. Scientific Creationism--seeing a tan cat in a bright room, then turning out the lights and claiming there's a black cat there.
  8. Physics-- Putting a black cat in a dark room, rotate it, flip it, drop it, smash it, nuke it, and still claim the black cat is in there.
  9. English--Writing about a black cat in a dark room using a white cat in a bright room as a metaphor.