Analogies to Motors

[Michael_Okoko]

@Nesslig20

@Rumraket

I genuinely don’t believe anything is gained by refusing to call them machines.

I would say that this makes the machine analogy (at the very least) extremely poor and (very often) misleading, since such statements are counter to what they fundamentally are and how they work.

Rum, I would agree with you if the people using the machine analogy were those who knew better, but just decided to play along. The machine analogy (just as the DNA-blueprint analogy, you and Mercer worked hard to correct me of) deceived me for a long time. I also know how many times its gotten thrown in my face by naive individuals arguing for intelligently designed cellular machines.