I'm also thinking about care with our language today, in light of democracy's 2024 challenges:
A common point of confusion for creationists (intentional or otherwise) is to conflate a "species"--a human classification that can change with time and improving knowledge of genetic kinship--with the underlying reality of lifeform variation under selection pressure giving rise (sometimes gradually, sometimes quickly) to different morphologies.
We conflate words with realities in politics, too. 1/2
π Okay, no - now I have a whole article in mind. More on this soon.