Okay, so the contention is that humans did not invent the design of DNA, and thus we did not invent programming with DNA. However, we invented animal husbandry

Okay, so the contention is that humans did not invent the design of DNA, and thus we did not invent programming with DNA. However, we invented animal husbandry several millennia before finding the structure of DNA, and we invented the concept of genetics to discuss and manipulate traits a century before we isolated DNA's low-level structure. Even today, knowing how DNA works, we usually program at the level of genes; see e.g. [0] where a Youtuber is doing genetic manipulation and programming. This is the same sort of map-territory situation [1] as in my original post. The RNA World [2] is the territory, and genetics is our map. [0] https://www.youtube.com/user/TheChemlife/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/TheChemlife/videos [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world