The arguments from analogy and their ridiculous (ab)use
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(ab)use  We see a lot of arguments from analogy in atheist vs
theist discussion. I saw the "trouble with atheism" video on
youtube (a british report) which abused it ridiculously by
comparing science to religion, darwin being the prophet and "the
origin" being the bible.   Analogy arguments are often
sophistic. This is much more a "metaphor" but not a real
analogy. The characteristics of religion is that the sacred
text, by definition, is sacred, whereas Darwin's work is
considered a major advance in biology, but not unquestionnable
at all. If you read evolution theory papers of the last 80
years, most papers published and acclaimed are the one which
contradicts the details of the basic theory. Scientists are more
than happy to be able to question this so-called "sacred book"
(see the Neutral theory of evolution e.g.) and thus the anal