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|access date=2012-10-13

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|quote=Darwin began his argument with an analogy. ... Building on this analogy, Darwin then turned to wild plants and animals. ... Lacking understanding of modern genetics and conceding that "our ignorance of the laws of variation is profound," Darwin speculated that innate differences among individuals often came from ... Of course, he did not understand heredity.}}</ref> as substitute for [[scientific observation]]. From analogy he moved to using [[metaphor]] (poetic device){{#tag:ref|cf."Methaphorical statements are not true or false, but merely apt or inapt, appropriate or inappropriate. Scientific statements make truth claims and therefore cannot be methaphorical."<ref name="Leatherdale"/>|group=note}} and [[Logic of possibility|imaginary examples]] such as an absurd and fantastic transformation from bears into whilelike animals owing to insects in the water functioning as the selector in the environment.<ref>{{cite book

|quote=Darwin began his argument with an analogy. ... Building on this analogy, Darwin then turned to wild plants and animals. ... Lacking understanding of modern genetics and conceding that "our ignorance of the laws of variation is profound," Darwin speculated that innate differences among individuals often came from ... Of course, he did not understand heredity.}}</ref> as substitute for [[scientific observation]]. From analogy he moved to using [[metaphor]] (poetic device){{#tag:ref|cf."Methaphorical statements are not true or false, but merely apt or inapt, appropriate or inappropriate. Scientific statements make truth claims and therefore cannot be methaphorical."<ref name="Leatherdale"/>|group=note}} and [[Logic of possibility|imaginary examples]] such as an absurd and fantastic transformation from bears into whalelike animals owing to insects in the water functioning as the selector in the environment.<ref>{{cite book

|author=Randal Hedtke

|author=Randal Hedtke

|title=Secrets of the Sixth Edition

|title=Secrets of the Sixth Edition