Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer, but that's because the designer himself, the engineer is explained by natural selection.

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Complex statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple statistically probable things.

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