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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (2866)	5/16/2000 8:32:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

That said ... I don't get the feeling from Clarke that directed evolution is something he believes. It made some nice stories, but he posted a sort of counterpart to this idea in his Rama series of novels. In that series, first contact happens a century or so from now, and while there is some limited cooperation among the various species involved, there is so little involvement by the shipbuilder elders that genocide can and did occur aboard. And Clarke did write that incredibly poignant short story about the supernova of Bethlehem - an indictment of more conventional ideas of directed evolution if there ever was one. The guy was versatile.