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To: epicure who wrote (90999)	12/10/2004 12:59:00 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

There is a well-doucmented case where annelids switch on or off the mutation rate through sexual vs. asexual reproduction. In a lake near Chernobyl the conversion was nearly completely in one direction: sexual. It is as though the worms have sensed the damage to their own DNA and have elected to reproduce with other living worms to promote the survival of the species. Other living worms are likely to have less mutation or more accurately less harmful mutation. They might just have the mutation required to live in a radioactive lake. There are many scales of randomness and chaos. Misunderstanding chaotic processes is understandable at some levels of inspection. However, saying popping-corn is a random process denies that there is a container, a source of agitation, a controlled heat source and an operator behind it. Genetics appears to have similar helmsman in the personage of the process or creature itself - GOD is as unnecessary as attributing it to Pink Space Bunnies! Yeah, the process has random elements, but that does not make the whole process random.