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Comment author: timtyler 03 September 2010 08:50:22AM *  0 points [-]

We can see that intelligent design beats random mutations by quite a stretch - by looking at the acceleration of change due to cultural evolution and technology.

Of course cultural evolution is still a kind of evolution - but intelligent mutations, multi-partner recombination and all the other differences do seem to add up to something pretty substantial.