Well, insects are a type of arthropod, so that’s an asymmetric comparison. But I can’t find a good cite for my claim. It could be I’m misremembering and it’s most animal species have wings. Beetles seem to be everywhere and are incredibly diverse.
It’s a joke. It’s based on the idea that there are large values of 2 and small values of 5, and this refers to imprecision in computer representations of numbers and the use of rounding.
I’m not talking about Adam and Eve, I’m talking about a woman alive today.
It comes from the strict sentential logic definition of “if then”.
Logically “If A then B” is equivalent to the statement that either A is false or B is True.
So if Mary is not sterile then statement “If Mary were sterile the human race would die out” is True
So so long as there exists a non-sterile woman a exists for which the statement “If that woman were sterile the human race would die out” is true
Of course if there are no non-sterile women exist the statement is still true since then the human race will die out and I can pick any woman to make the statement true.
ISTM that like Mr.E’s statement about the boiling and freezing points of water, this doesn’t meet the OP’s criterion of being “deceptively and woefully incomplete”. The initial impression that the average person would get from that statement is in fact an accurate reflection of reality.
Compare that to a statement like “Most animals have wings”, which could initially mislead the hearer into thinking that it means that most mammals and reptiles have wings (since that’s the sort of creature we colloquially call an “animal”, as in “animals, birds, fish and insects”), which of course is false.
You need the additional awareness that “oh yeah, strictly speaking ‘animal’ means any organism in the kingdom Animalia and a lot of those have wings” to make that statement seem plausible.