Have you ever been overwhelmed by how much testing goes into a new and innovative design on a product or invention? I have watched many TV shows that demonstrate product testing. The thing that got me thinking about this is a story on The Guardian that showed a video on a new propulsion system for future airplanes. See the video here.
The name of the video is: “Watch the first plane with no moving parts take flight – video“
The caption below the video says, “The flight represents a breakthrough in ‘ionic wind’ technology, which uses a powerful electric field to generate charged nitrogen ions, which are then expelled from the back of the aircraft, generating thrust.”
Do you think that the physicist and engineers tested the new ionic wind technology to find it optimum operation? Of course.
When I ask myself Is Evolution A Theory, I think about birds and how, according to theory of evolution, reptiles took to winged flight. At the same time I am amazed at all of the testing the Wright brothers and many inventors before them did.
I recently watched a documentary on the History Channel covering the evolution of rocket development by Germany during WWII. Amazing. Of course the end result was a successful rocket program in the US because the US government offered the captured German engineers and physicist a deal they could not refuse.
As an engineer, I am amazed at the amount of testing necessary to bring a product to successful operation. (See IEAT’s Law of Engineering) From rockets to software, testing is necessary to eliminate what does not work. Do you remember Thomas Edison’s quote when asked about the light bulb research?
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
So Is Evolution A Theory and how much testing did reptiles perform before they flew? Seriously, how did natural selection come up with the most optimum wing shape and feather without a testing laboratory?
Another way to phase this question: Can an unguided, undirected, random process create new things such as more complex and higher organisms?
And let us not ponder how natural selection picked the beak shape and color of the Roseate Spoonbill. Tea spoon, table spoon or soup spoon?
I am just asking. Seems like magic to me. But then even magician’s test their tricks.