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I just thought of a few more examples:

■ Familiarity with a topic causes sensitivity to differences.

To most people, the sun, the moon, the clouds, and the stars are associated with each other. After all, we see all these attractions when we look in the same direction, namely: up.

Astronomers may give us figures on how far away the heavenly bodies are from each other, but those figures are meaningless to each other. A million miles, ten million miles, a hundred million miles--what's the difference?

That is why Miffy and his friends ride clouds and toss stars at each other.

Just as we equate everything which is faraway, we equate everything which is long ago. Dinosaurs and cavemen both lived farther in the past than we can imagine. Consequently, we can't see that there was also an inimaginably long span of time between the two.

That is why the Flintstones keep a pet dinosaur.

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Well there's the obvious Creationists and Evolution.

Also a lot of people like to criticise a religion when they've never been a part of it.

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[tomato]

I just thought of a couple more examples:

■ Familiarity with a topic causes sensitivity to differences.

Ever notice how many words mean "everyone but us"?
The gypsy word is gorgio.
The Roman word is barbarian.
The African word is bwana.
The Latin-American word is gringo.
The Jewish word is Gentile.
The Christian word is pagan.
The Moslem word is infidel.

As if it were not bad enough to say that all individuals within another culture are the same,
now we are saying that all other cultures are the same!

■ By the time you arrive at the horizon, the horizon moves.

The word atom literally means "indivisible."
That name was bestowed before the discovery of the neutron, the proton, and the electron.

I should have used this example in the original post.
It is much simpler than the example which I DID use.