20 January 2019

Humor is the flower of wisdom.

That genetic variability is exclusively random is gratuitous and unprovable, a reminder of the hidden variable issue that bedevils quantum mechanics.   As in physics, the exclusion of design in favor of mathematics alone is axiomatic rather than derived.
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Nuclear fission and the neutron fission chain are frightfully interesting, a unique phenomenon of nature astonishing beyond words, a prodigious source of energy and an agitated dilemma for society.