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The fundamentals of biology are not difficult to grasp. Evolution, DNA -> RNA -> Protein, basic cell signalling, etc are all really easy to grasp with just the tiniest bit of effort. There's really no place for bad analogies, especially such a misleading one.

Sorry to bite your head off, but the reason that I'm passionate about this topic is, and I'm not joking, young earth Creationism. An analogy like the grandparent is something simple to grasp by many people, and then the Creationists can quickly turn around and say, "Well you see how biology is like a computer; somebody built a computer; therefore, God created us in six days, 6000 years ago."

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Swerving into religious flamewar is not a good move either. Please don't do this on HN.

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> The fundamentals of biology are not difficult to grasp.

The fundamentals of biology are extraordinarily difficult to grasp. Not only that, the fundamentals aren't set in stone and are subject to change. The rise of epigentics being a recent example. The only people who claim the fundamentals are not to difficult to grasp are people who have a superficial and incorrect understanding of it.

> Sorry to bite your head off, but the reason that I'm passionate about this topic is, and I'm not joking, young earth Creationism

So you got triggered because you have a political agenda? It's my experience that people who know nothing argue with or feel threatened by creationists. I say this as an atheist.

> "Well you see how biology is like a computer; somebody built a computer; therefore, God created us in six days, 6000 years ago."

The biology-computation analogy has been used since the founding of computer science. Everyone from Turing to the commenter you attacked has used it. Heck, even biologists view biological systems are biological machines.

You are fundamentally no different than the creationists you argue with. I'm almost certain you know nothing about biology or computer science other than pop culture nonsense.

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Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN, no matter how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

Also, please edit out swipes from your comments.

Both these points are in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If you wouldn't mind reviewing those and sticking to them when posting here, we'd appreciate it.