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Some of these are a bit fuzzy - you might want to go into more detail to ensure that they're not effects that could also arise from evolution.

The main difference, IMO, is that evolution will tend to converge on a locally optimal solution, whereas really good design will tend to converge on a globally optimal solution. Broadly speaking, intelligence is better at coming up with designs that are really effective at a high level, whereas evolution is demonstrably better at low-level optimisation than most humans. Evolution can't preplan, but it is very good at making the best of what it's given.

(Of course, the problem with this (again IMO) is that life on Earth doesn't display the sort of effective high-level design that you'd expect of an intelligent designer. The classic example is the design of the retina - fish have inverted retinas, squid have verted retinas, yet they live in the same environment so one of the options must not be globally optimal. That makes no sense if there was an intelligent entity doing the designing, but it makes perfect sense if squid eyes and fish eyes evolved separately - once you've installed a retina the wrong way round, it's not easy to correct that mistake by evolutionary changes.) -- Corkscrew 06:35, 4 April 2006 (CDT)

It's fuzzy on purpose: I haven't worked anything out. :) I just jotted down some possibilities. Thank you for the comments, once I start to hash the effects out I will keep these in mind. -- JosephCCampana 06:43, 4 April 2006 (CDT)