[js1138]

I strongly suspect that thought and emotions influence not only metabolism -- that's clear to all -- but the genetic transfers during fertilization as well.

That's a variation of Lamarkianism. It's been dead as a hypothesis for 80 years.

Has less than nothing to do with what I was speculating about. I am saying that selection as a shaping process is seen in biology, behavioral pshchology and neuroscience, and in economics, particularly free market economies.

I find it surprising that conservatives can deny the effectiveness of selection to bring order to chaotic processes.

[bvw]

Then it should be restudied. For 80 years predates the DNA chemistry work, and recent work on how sperms manage to reach the ovum.

And your latter question gets to what is chaos and what is order. Intelligent selection, designed selection, includes more than some unionized intelligent selector sitting on some DNA assembly line, but more potently the design and parmeterization of processes, which processes may appear in the small to be random, but that are subject to a crafty process that engenders the desired result. The intelligence may be so subtle that its processes avoid discrete detection -- are not possible to distinquish from chaos, yet in aggregate it is design.