Good job on completely departing from the analogy and instead talk about the woodchipper itself.
Here's the analogy again:
As you can see, the analogy is not about the woodchipper as a device.
The analogy is rather about how wasteful the inner workings of the cell are.
Furthermore, the inner workings of the cell are just bio-chemical reactions.
So I ask again, how have you determined that there is / was an intended result?
Because it rather seems to me that when a (bio)chemical reaction takes place, the output of that reaction is actually more of an inevitable result.
It's not like such reactions give random output.
A+B under conditions X will always result in Z.
Entire chemical industries are based on that.
Biochemical reactions take place, and the cell functions, indisputable.
However, the context for me has always been for me in this conversation, the alleged precursor organism of abiogenesis.
Life as we know is based upon DNA , having complicated encoded information that is transcribed, and through chemical reactions directs the function of the cell.
The question I have asked, is where did the complicated information, and the ability to transcribe it come from for that very first organism ?
If one takes a little time to learn about the information encoded in the two strands of DNA, how it is transcribed by the cell so the cell can function it is quite amazing process.
It is also precise, precise in that its very detailed encoded information is made to control a whole host of very complicated chemical reactions so the cell survives.
The alleged precursor organism would have to have information and a way to "read" it to live and reproduce.
People get really hung up on the word information, because it seemingly is hostile to the cherished blind random chemical reaction narrative.
But there it is. The operation of a cell may be blind, it may be based on chemical reactions, but it isn't random, and it is based upon complicated information passed on to it at it';s creation.
So, the alleged precursor organism created by blind random forces would have from the start had to have information and a way to apply it to function,
survive.
Blind chemical reaction, sure. Uncontrolled, chaotic blind chemical reaction, no. The chaos is controlled by information used by the organism.
In that alleged very first organism, that functioned and reproduced, by using some form of information that it "read", utilized properly in it's function, had to come from somewhere.
A simple question. Wood chippers and piles of wood chips are great, but they don't address the issue.
Whether the process is blind and random is irrelevant, blind and random forces somehow created complicated information before life existed, or at exactly the same moment life popped into existence, with a way to process it in place, how ?