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Atheistoclast wrote:

dionysus wrote:

Atheistoclast wrote:Actually, the best designs don't even need prototyping.

So you claim that you can invent things from scratch without any predecessors OR prototypes? That's intriguing. I'd love to see that.

Actually, engineers use "models" or "emulators" rather than "prototypes".

Prototyping is a very expensive business and poor way to test a design.

But my point was that your designs are still based on previous designs. I'm sure you didn't just pull up a bunch of raw materials, with no inspiration whatsoever from previous designs and suddenly make the entire thing from scratch including all of the pieces, basically inventing the entire machine yet, that's basically what IDers claim the intelligent designer did.