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To: zonder who wrote (34)	5/6/2003 9:06:23 PM
From: Volsi Mimir	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 520

You are probably referring to the telomere part at the end of DNA strands To the author's credit, he writes about that but wanted to show as at the time the book was written (1996), he didn't know if that part halving itself and the correlation to aging was the cause or effect of the telomere or something yet to be discovered. He did mention about the HeLa cells which outlived the original scientist and even took a space flight, and which coming from cancerous cells, may also have a clue. The point being that this is one of many "scientific" views which shows life in a different perspective, the belief system withstanding. He does get into what defines a human and how death is handled differently to human life as opposed to other living organisms and yet we are all nature's fruition. Does that make science an anti-theocratic doctrine, I don't know, but science is providing clues and answers to myth's and religion's quest but may not give the ultimate answer of the beginning of this universe or why. Here is the author's website directed to this book's reviews. (His homepage link at the bottom leads to other books (more current) and articles he had written. The reviews may give more concise summaries. He is a research scientist and Professor of Immunology at UCLA) wrclarkbooks.com