Bacon and Darwin
Bacon uses the world "idol" with a different meaning behind it. He claims that idol is an error made in society. We get the errors from ourselves, culture, false teachings, etc. I do not think the term "idol" suits this well at all. When I think of "idol," I think of something positive. An idol is something you look to for what you want to be like or look like. Bacon’s uses the word “idol” meaning that these are the false images in which a person has an error; they idols are errors in man. We have the tribal idol that symbolizes our natural human errors as a group. The idols of the cave being our own errors that arise from our own minds and the idol of the marketplace represents errors that come from others; a marketplace idol is like hearing something false from someone and telling others of it, sort of like a rumor. I believe that the least severe idol is the idol of the tribe; we constantly come up with new information as to not ba...