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[ Everything can be reduced to simple, evident, mechanical interactions. The cell is a machine; the animal is a machine; the man is a machine. -Jacques Monod ]

If this is true THEN... the human body could be and probably is a Space Suit for the human spirit.. Because it seems that all flesh of any organism is a machine.. even Jesus flesh was a machine.. (John ch 8)..

Wonder if there are "levels" of spirit.. or KINDS of spirit.. that inhabits various "machines".. From God to Angels, humans, animals, insects and plants.. even mushrooms and microbes.. And that flesh is merely the conduit on this planet, to function..

It could be that all flesh is merely mechanical.. but spirit is the motor in the machine.. Wondor "IF" that was Jesus message to all.. You know, that "we" humans(as spirits) are greater than we appear in the flesh.. And when flesh dies, "we" don't.. Heaven and Hell, could be, and probably are "hints" of this..

Monod could be closer to the truth than Darwin can/could compute.. Charlie Darwin could have overlooked the obvious.. But not of evolution of the machine but evolution of the spirit.. Spiritual evolution could be the truth of what Darwin was observing.. Not only with humans but with ALL LIFE... NOW, would'nt that be a "HOOT"..

Monod is probably one of the most doctrinaire materialists imaginable. He rules out spirit on principle. When he says man is a machine, this is precisely what he means — there is only the machine, there is no soul or spirit. Plus he avers that everything we see all about us in the universe is the result of "pure, blind chance."

I wouldn't call the cell a machine; it would be more correct to say it has machine-like properties. But that doesn't make it a machine. It is only to analogize.