The “Competition to Reproduce” is yet another demigod ~ best avoided in this sort of discussion. These young people have worked long and hard to find out what’s fixing broken DNA. Now, if they can discover how that stuff is manufactured, they’ll probably become quite famous.
No. It's the answer to the question I was answering.
It is not a "demigod". It's an explanation. It's a fact. Nothing gets relegated to demigod status because you don't like it.