[js1138]

You mean that Darwin's theory could be classified as metaphor? We aren't to take everything he said as literal after all?

Science isn't apologetics.

[metmom]

You mean that Darwin's theory could be classified as metaphor? We aren't to take everything he said as literal after all?

js: Science isn't apologetics.

That's not an answer.

Do we take Darwin as literal or as metaphor?

How do you make the distinction? And when and why?