... metaphors, which are often used to describe aspects of God's character - for example God is Rock implies his dependability. Both Bohr and Soskice argued that this was crucial, comparing the use of metaphor in religion with its use in science. Metaphor is often used to capture a concept which can be difficult to describe (i.e. a Black hole is not literally a hole), so why can it not be the same with religious language? This is often said to be because scientific ideas can be verified here, where as religious ones have not - they rely on belief. The verification principle in fact is often used to suggest statements can only have meaning if they can be empirically verified. First introduced by Wittgenstein and later expanded logical positivists, it claims that only two types of statement are meaningful; analytical and synthetic statements. Religious statements being neither of these and are ...

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