ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions. ***************************************************************************** To dovetail into something else... Stephen Uzzo sez: "Natural selection is important not because of all the "facts" about living things (or evidence of formerly living things) we accumulate, but rather how elegant it is as a process for change and adaptation and how universally applicable it is to living systems from intracellular metabolic processes up to clades and beyond...." So, what exactly do you mean by "elegant"? And whatever it may mean, is it really an important facet of science? I read Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe". I liked it even though I didn't understand a few parts. (OK, OK! More than a few!) He talked about how string theory was elegant, and that was one reason some people think it's on the right track - but admitted that there's no reason the universe couldn't operate under an inelegant system. Just curious, Jonah Cohen *********************************************************************** More information about the Informal Science Education Network and the Association of Science-Technology Centers may be found at http://www.astc.org. To remove your e-mail address from the ISEN-ASTC-L list, send the message SIGNOFF ISEN-ASTC-L in the BODY of a message to [log in to unmask]