DNA is spaghetti code exemplified. We are carried around tons of dead viral DNA for example - what amounts to shipping code with older code commented out.

I'm using this argument in my next code review meeting.

As a reviewer I'd then insist that your code was thrown into a software-eats-software world and given a few million reproductive cycles to see how it fares. If it's still thriving you'll get your PR approval.

Hmm. We really ARE created in his image - at least I am.

That thing where you can't accelerate to the speed of light is obviously a hack around some glitch that happens when you do so.

Or maybe this reality is actually a dev environment.