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Evolution Versus Devolution

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Our body must digest certain nutrition. Our car must digest certain nutrition. If a person eats poison, the performance of that individual will decrease. If a car eats poison, the performance of that automobile will decrease. Cars sometimes need anti-freeze liquid. Without it, problems can occur. Cars digest gas (oil) like we digest food (energy, etc). If a car takes in counterfeit gas then that can cause problems. If your car runs on premium, then regular gas may damage your car.
 
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The nutrition we digest is used to maintain and build our bodies. Fuel in cars is not. Poisons work completely different from using the wrong fuel. The reason cars need anti-freeze liquid is completely different from the reason our bodies need food.

Seriously, you could have spent the time you typed the above to learn some actual biology instead of coming up with a comparison that does not work. At all. Stop it and start studying.
 
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JoeyArnold said:
If the wrong things get into the body, wrong things happen. If the wrong things get into a car, wrong things happen.
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That still does not make the processes comparable, as I already explained. Now, go study some biology.

Edited to add: or car mechanics. I can imagine not doing both, but at least learn about one of them.
 
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JoeyArnold said:
...& yet things that are unrelated do have similarities.
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And in the case of humans and cars, things can happen that disrupt the normal operation.

However, that doesn't mean that the disruptive things are the same, and it doesn't mean the disruption happens the same way.

Please, Joey, get over it and listen to what we are saying. Honestly, it seems like you are arguing just for the sake of it.
 
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JoeyArnold said:
I did not say that they were exactly the same. There is a difference between similarities identical twins.
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yes, but identical twins are both genetically the same, the same species, and living organisms.

a car isn't even an organism, it has no metabolism, and it doesn't reproduce on its own, though i'm sure you'll find a way to claim otherwise.
 
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Some people do not understand what comparing means. Farther, some think that you can only compare apples with apples and oranges with oranges. Some people believe that you cannot or should not compare apples with oranges or cars with people. However, that would defeat the purpose of what comparison is all about. Comparison is about sticking two things together that were not already together in the first place. Two apples are a lot closer to each other than an apple and an orange.
 
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