I don't think so. If I were designing a bunch of living things, I would do a lot of reuse. I'd pretty much design each separate animal by modifying the design of other animals like it.
Well, yes, because you're not omnipotent. Once you have unlimited knowledge and unlimited power, the optimal design strategy for you looks quite different from that of a modern engineer.
What we know of intelligent design (in lower case, not the origin myth with that name) is a bunch of stuff including various economies of design processes and elegance of design processes. Reuse and standardization of components and subsystems have to be among the top principles of design.
So at bare minimum, similarity between chimp and human (and bonobo and gorilla and pig and rat) genomes hardly rules out an intelligent design process, the reuse in fact would more reasonably be thought a hallmark of intelligent design process.
Which is not to say tha...
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