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Evolution Is Like A Ladder Of Progress?
a: Evolution ~
b: a ladder of progress
What: Misconception: "Evolution is like a climb up a ladder of progress;
organisms are always getting better." See the link. It contains a
discussion about why evolution is NOT a pre- determined walk up a
latter. The fancy phrasing for this idea is that evolution is not
teleological.
Useful?
Writer: Not Stated
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Aug 8 2011 7:36 PM
# 975 Critique Analogy
Evolution
a: Evolution ~
b: a Secular Religion
What: Darwinists Admits Evolution is like a Secular Religion.
Useful?
Writer: Phillip E. Johnson
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Aug 7 2011 10:48 AM
# 980 Critique Analogy
Evolution Is Like A Dance
a: Evolution ~
b: a dance
What: "like a dance - it's not going anywhere, it's simply exploring a space of possibilities," See the link for the obituary of this Canadian scientist.
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Writer: Brian Goodwin
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Date: Aug 7 2011 11:00 AM
# 982 Critique Analogy
Evolution is like finding a log cabin
a: Evolution ~
b: finding a log cabin
What: "Evolution is like finding a log cabin and thinking just because you are in the woods that nature built it."
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Writer: Floordford
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Date: Aug 7 2011 11:19 AM
# 987 Critique Analogy
Evolution is like a drunk......
a: Evolution ~
b: a drunk reeling back and forth between
What: "Evolution is like a drunk reeling back and forth between the gutter and the Bar Room door." Is this a quote out of context?
Useful?
Writer: Stephen J. Gould
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Date: Aug 7 2011 11:22 AM
# 988 Critique Analogy
evolution is like a tornado assembling a 747
a: evolution ~
b: tornado assembling a 747
What: To paraphrase that famous quote about evolution: "to believe in the theory of evolution is like believing that a tornado moved over a junk yard and assembled a 747."
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Writer: Jann Burner
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Date: Aug 7 2011 11:45 AM
# 994 Critique Analogy
Evolution
a: Evolution ~
b: an acid
What: "Evolution is like an acid-it eats away at faith, morality, and meaning. May all Christians look to God for strength in these challenging times and cling to His promise in Isaiah 66:1-2:"
See the link for a full discussion.
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Writer: Dr. Barbara Forrest
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Date: Aug 7 2011 11:59 AM
# 995 Critique Analogy
Evolution
a: Evolution ~
b: Monkeys on Typewriters
What:
Evolution is like the proverbial monkeys hammering away at typewriters to write Hamlet. Except you give those Monkeys 3.8 billion years and the words start to edit themselves.
Useful?
Writer: Buck Jabaily
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Mar 13 2018 4:25 PM
# 11851 Critique Analogy
Temper Tantrums
a: Revolution ~
b: a baby
What: "The revolution is like a baby," Rami, a Syrian activist, said in an interview on Sunday in a Beirut cafe. "You can't say if this baby is going to be a doctor or a lawyer, smart or dumb. Even if this baby throws his mother's purse, I can't complain - he's a baby."
Useful?
Writer: Rami
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Date: Feb 1 2013 12:08 PM
# 2623 Critique Analogy
a: coevolution ~
b: arms race
What:
"Coevolution is like an arms race between interacting populations of different species. Sometimes the predators surge ahead; at other times the prey get the ..."
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Writer: G. Tyler Miller, Scott Spoolman
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Date: May 2 2016 3:18 PM
# 9861 Critique Analogy
a: coevolution ~
b: folk dancing
What:
"Coevolution is like folk dancing-at any one moment you have a partner, but there is more to it thought on coevolution, a plethora of examples of all kinds of ..."
Useful?
Writer: The Differences Between the Sexes. R. V. Short , E. Balaban
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Date: May 2 2016 3:22 PM
# 9862 Critique Analogy
a: Evolution Vs Creationism ~
b: Discovery Channel Vs the Disney Channel
Synapses As Ics?
a: Molecular evolution of the synapse ~
b: the evolution of computer chips
What: "The molecular evolution of the synapse is like the evolution of computer chips - the increasing complexity has given them more power and those animals with the most powerful chips can do the most,"
Useful?
Writer: Grant SGN
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Date: May 14 2013 5:17 PM
# 3221 Critique Analogy
METAMIA is a free database of analogy and metaphor. Anyone can contribute or search. The subject matter can be anything. Science is popular, but poetry is encouraged. The goal is to integrate our fluid muses with the stark literalism of a relational database. Metamia is like a girdle for your muses, a cognitive girdle.