From:    Dr Pepper
To:      All                                    Dec-05-93 04:33AM
Subject: Pretty Good Partitioning

I've been very sick recently. I spent about 18 hours straight in bed,
interrupted only to dash to the bathroom, all the while burning up with fever.
While i was engaged in this pleasant pursuit, i thought i glimpsed the answer
to a great creationist mystery. But i felt too weak and incoherent to post.
Well the fever's gone, but now i can't remember all the details. So i now
present what's left of my thoughts in the hope that they may be of value to
someone.

Pretty Good Partitioning is a system that uses advanced polynomial factoring
to establish absolute limits of biological diversity.

For familiar two-sexed animals, PGP assigns two large prime numbers, call them
Alpha and Omega, to each organism. These numbers are not unique, they can be
shared by unlimited numbers of individuals. They are expressed in DNA, their
values used as keys to encode genetic information.

A breeding population shares both numbers. Before gametes can fuse, they have
to decode each other, which of course produces an extensive numeric series
which would be prefectly intelligible if written in proto-chaldean by
cuniform. Gametes that cannot decode each other cannot fuse, this limits cross
breeding.

Furthermore, fusion will be incomplete without reestablishing the encoding.
The numeric sequence produced by superimposing the parents' sequences (xor has
been suggested but is probably too simplistic) must be merged with A and then
with O.

But not every fusion can be encoded, the range is restricted. Numeric
sequences that produce overflow during the encoding process will fail to be
encoded and a viable zygote will not be produced. It appears possible to
change O if necessary to fit, but A is absolutely unchangeble.

The process of changing numbers within bounds is known as MICROEVOLUTION, and
the domain space of permitted variation is called a KIND.

More research is needed but preliminary results suggest that the
number of degrees of freedom is related to A/O.

For instance, for sharks, which everyone knows have never changed, A=O. On the
other hand, lizards, which have come to include geckoes, iguanas, chameleons,
komodo dragons, and horned toads since Noah let loose the original 2 (or 7 if
you believe the essene revisionists), must have A at least 1000 times the size
of O.

For asexual creatures there is only one number, but it has not yet been
determined if it is A or O. For creatures with multiple sexes or life stages
investigations are still in the initial stages.

There seem to be two cases of energy being invested in decoding foreign
messages, namely viruses and antibodies.


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