God is not a man, that he should lie;
Numbers 23:19
"The trouble with metaphors is that they don’t just mirror
scientific beliefs, they also shape them. Our imagery is never just surface paint, it expresses, advertises and strengthens our preferred interpretations. It also usually carries unconscious bias from the age we live in – and this can be tricky to ditch no matter how faulty.... Evolution has been the most glaring example of the thoughtless use of metaphor over the past 30 years...." — Mary Midgley, “The selfish metaphor,” New Scientist, 1/31/2011
. A metaphor is a figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect, thus highlighting the similarities between the two.
