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    A genuinely designed system would not systematically pres... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Organisms are in fact designed.

    A genuinely designed system would not systematically preserve the historical accidents and phylogenetic baggage that organisms demonstrably carry.

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    • 1.Optimal engineering minimizes inefficiency: a rational designer would eliminate vestigial structures like human wisdom teeth and appendices.
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    • 2.Natural selection preserves functional compromises from ancestry; design would optimize each system independently without historical constraints.
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    • 3.Human vulnerability to back pain reflects vertebrate tetrapod spine ancestry, not what an engineer would choose for bipedal upright posture.
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    • 1.Constraints are features of good design: working within material/developmental limits often produces elegant solutions unavailable to unconstrained optimization.
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    • 2.Evolutionary 'baggage' often serves multiple functions; removing it would break integrated systems. A designer might preserve it for the same reason.
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    • 3.We lack access to the designer's actual goals or constraints; apparent inefficiency might reflect prioritizing robustness, evolvability, or other values over elegance.
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