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Airplanes were invented by natural selection. now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. there were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.
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Airplanes Were Invented By Natural Selection. Now

Burt Rutan
Airplanes were invented by natural selection. now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. there were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.
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