[pessimizer]

You're objecting to the metaphor, not the substance or the reference. The metaphor has no bearing on whether Michael Levin (who I am not familiar with) is right or wrong. I can't decode anything in your objection to the metaphor that seems to have a bearing on that, either; it just seems like a copypasta extolling expertise and showing frustration at naive internet amateurs. It takes a single google search to find that Levin is not a naive internet amateur.

Biology is not programming, except when it is like programming, or when it involves programming. But that could also be said about golf.