“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.” TryingDifferentTodayNaturalDesignIntelligentDifferent ThingsPilotsAirplaneCrashSelectionNatural SelectionIntelligent Design Author:Burt Rutan
“Basic research is not the same as development. A crash programme for the latter may be successful; but for the former it is like trying to make nine women pregnant at once in the hope of getting a baby in a month's time.” TryingMaySuccessfulBabyMonthsDevelopmentResearchNineFormerBeing SuccessfulLatterStatisticsPregnantCrashProgrammesBasic Research Author:Richard Doll