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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
Check out the wing structure on a dragonfly. Trusses provide support for rigidity while at the same time being lightweight. A super thin 'skin' to enable lift to occur.. Skin is clear to reduce visibility to predators.. BRILLIANT!

I have a degree in mechanical engineering. The best minds in the world can't create a machine this complex. But there is more.

When people compare the mature dragonfly to a flying robot, they fail to consider the fact that the dragonfly developed from a microscopic size, to its mature size, requiring only minimal organic inputs. Try to imagine developing a robot like that. And yet this creature is supposed to have developed by chance. What could be more absurd?

6 posted on 09/13/2013 10:45:15 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

“...they fail to consider the fact that the dragonfly developed from a microscopic size, to its mature size, requiring only minimal organic inputs.”

Do you mean from the egg to the larval form to the mature adult? Or from the beginning of time?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meganeura


11 posted on 09/13/2013 10:55:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
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