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>>9440620

Proof follows from self-evidence.

There can be no mutation in a deterministic evolution of biological molecules. Determinism has an inherent constraint that it must obey conservation of information and a new gene is new piece of information. Therefore mutations are stochastic... just like the flux of cosmic rays.

The regular carbon isotope will never become the radiocarbon isotope under determinism. You have to add an external information reservoir (cosmic rays) which interacts with the deterministic subsystem through some assumed mode of stochastic injectivity. Sometimes a cosmic ray makes carbon turn into radiocarbon and sometimes some other stochastic process (possibly also a cosmic ray) breaks the deterministic evolution of the DNA molecule in a way that leads to a new gene.