At Tue, 2 Feb 1999 08:29:58 -0800, you wrote:
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>> Why do we die?
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>> Maybe because a steady flow of new people is the only way
>> for new social structures, paradigms, and ideas to evolve,
>> which may in turn maximize the chance of the survival of life.
>> As Nobel physicist Max Plank said about evolution in science:
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>Why would animals die, then?
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Birth can only coexist with death in a world of finite room and resources populated by spacetime occupying and matter/energy consuming lifeforms.
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Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher