Almost everything Michael Ruse says here could be part of a brilliant, Sokal-style hoax on the NYT:http://nyti.ms/1lTUoie
@hearsaybacktalk I do not think that it is correct to see "the machine" as a metaphor, or to interpret the sciences hermeneutically.
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@Plinz Dawkins writes a major science book based on a metaphor of selfishness, but no, don't study language, science is about literal facts -
@hearsaybacktalk Neither did I say that metaphors are unproductive (especially in popsci books), nor did mention "literal facts"
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