This distortion is made for a specific purpose, for controlling living things in the same way as one can control machines one has invented. Those who patent living things will claim that they are not distorting anything but that they are merely asking for a recognition of their own creativity that has gone into making the living thing what it actually is. They do not. Even they would only claim that their creativity is reflected in the living thing, not that they have made it. If they want reward, they could ask society to develop a system appropriate for their role in the improvement that comes from reorganising.
Society pays for many of the services it gets.
A service given does not have to be a creation in order to be rewarded. When they claim creativity in relation to life, one of the activities they point to is the extraction of bio-molecules. The extraction and identification of a molecule is a discovery, not a creation, not an invention. We are told that discoveries are not patentable. I have now discovered this great city of Brussels.