"This is amazingly bonkers."
You can't actually prove anything by analogy*, so I'm going to cut to the chase: there is an argument that Syria is the catalyst for a sunni-shia battle across the Middle East, and that too is amazingly bonkers. Those may be the faultlines along which conflicts in individual countries lie, but does not mean that all the nations in the Middle East are fighting with each other. That is what Assad and his defenders would like us to believe, it has been the regime that has bombed and shelled across its borders, to add credibility to its claim to be fighting a war of sectarian foreign intervention, when it is not.
There is more that could be said in defence of Dawkins, but I can leave that.
*Though you can infer some stuff,[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_analogy]
You can't actually prove anything by analogy*, so I'm going to cut to the chase: there is an argument that Syria is the catalyst for a sunni-shia battle across the Middle East, and that too is amazingly bonkers. Those may be the faultlines along which conflicts in individual countries lie, but does not mean that all the nations in the Middle East are fighting with each other. That is what Assad and his defenders would like us to believe, it has been the regime that has bombed and shelled across its borders, to add credibility to its claim to be fighting a war of sectarian foreign intervention, when it is not.
There is more that could be said in defence of Dawkins, but I can leave that.
*Though you can infer some stuff,[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_analogy]
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