"Like I said, evolution is like rust. It is what is happening to the old car out in a field, but it is not what created it, nor is it's condition superior to before it was parked there.
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Uh...that argument won't wash, there, RobRoy. Cars are not alive. They don't breed and reproduce other cars.
Just in case you hadn't heard, animals like humans don't do too well as individuals. They tend to rot after their dead. It's amazing, huh?
It's that living part that puts the kaibosh on your little explanation. While animals are alive, they heal from illness, reproduce by making new animals, and generally improve with age to some degree.
Once they die, though, all that's over, and they soon rot, or are eaten by other animals.
Your simile is baseless, I'm afraid. Back to the drawing board you go.
I'm thinking of the car as representing the species, not the individual. But you are right. If an analogy is perfect, it becomes the thing itself.
Let me be clear. I firmly believe in evolution - DE-evolution. But evolution is not what made the individual types of biological machines. It is what happened to them after they were created.