The article's title and the words of Denis Noble are quite incendiary and come across as misinformed. Are the non-quoted ideas attributable to Ball accurate? I

The article's title and the words of Denis Noble are quite incendiary and come across as misinformed. Are the non-quoted ideas attributable to Ball accurate? I don't know. The actual quotes from Ball, wherein he laments the comparisons of cells to computers comes across as ill-informed. Computers operate on programs. If a program is dependent on complex state, includes random factors, error correcting codes, etc., how is it incompatible with the description of the cell? Yes, cells are immensely complex. But that does not preclude analogizing to a computer. This critique strikes me as refusing to admit the nuance of another's argument while demanding others see the "correct" nuance in one's own.