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On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 09:43:21 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 01/12/2025 02:55, c186282 wrote:
>> And that's the thing ... too tight/powerful a 'standard'
>>    too early on and you undermine 'evolution'.
> 
> You hit on something there., The top down standards creators are
> 'creationists'
> 
> The engineers who fiddle till it workls better and then draw up a paper
> to say how it works, are Darwinian.

Even worse, I've found the Creationists that have hammered out an 
extensive specification will, by God, implement that specification even 
when it becomes apparent it isn't working. q.v. F35, Zumwalt, etc.