Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 430
CHIRALITY OR SIDEDNESS IN NATURE. On partiality to sidedness as found in the animal kingdom and vegetative behaviour, they write: 'Right-handed or dextral shells dominate-on both sides of the Equator. Among these right-dominated animals, left-handed individuals exist only as a result of mutations, which appear with a frequency ranging from about one in hundreds to one in millions, depending on the species. "³ right sided grooves left sided grooves. In contrast to them, the lightning-whelk of the. Atlantic coast are predominantly left-handed. In plants, the honeysuckle winds around its support in a left-handed helix while the bindweed prefers winding from right to left. Even in bacteria some of their colonies spiral from right to left yet the temperature increases they reverse the spiral direction to lefthanded turns. ³ as. These are but a few cases. At every level of evolution we find many other outstanding examples of how life displays partiality to the spin of molecules. Their study excites wonderment and leaves one bewildered. There has to be a. Conscious All-Wise Supreme Selector who made choices at every stage of decision making or one has to ascribe this role to the haphazard vagaries of blind nature! 419