Quote;All in all, there is no direct comparison between computers and DNA, or anything else in biology. There are some useful analogies and metaphors, but they are tropes, not biological reality.
It is understandable that DD's ["Darwin Defenders" - a cute little denigratory moniker that ARN forum denizens have given people that actually understand science in an attempt to belittle them without getting into trouble ] would try to ignore the analogy between computers and living systems since analysis based on this analogy clearly demonstrates that their belief system is logically unworkable...
Clearly, the person quoted in lavender above does not understand what analogies are used for...
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Hi Chris,
Yes, their "logic" escapes me as well. It is bad enough to try to use analogies as evidence as they so often do, but it strikes me as nonsensical to actually try to equate human contrivances with biological processes (or any other natural phenonena).
It just escapes me.
Oh, well
"It is understandable that DD's would try to ignore the analogy between computers and living systems since analysis based on this analogy clearly demonstrates that their belief system is logically unworkable... "
Yeah, computers are good at surviving and self-reproducing, aren't they?
Computers need to be designed and built, living organisms don't.
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