The Mechanism is much newer, it has only been around for a few hundred years - but it is much harder to explain. What is a machine, when you come right down to it? Whatever it is - it made us rich. And made us much like it, at the same time. This complicated interaction made religious explanations impossible.
And, at the same time, produced fantastic religious explanations - in the form of the Second Great Awakening - and even the American Civil War.
An organism is much simpler to define - something that has organs. We can all point to the organs in a dead body At one time, the dissection of a corpse, attracted large audiences - much to the horror of the Church.
But then, the microscope made it possible to see something even more amazing - we are all made of cells, and nothing but cells!
But then, Chemistry showed us there were large, complex molecules inside these cells that were doing their thing, many times a second!
In a strange way - Mechanisms and Organisms are doing the same thing!
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