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- From: acsrdl@UMASSD.EDU
- Subject: Re: OOBE: How? Why?
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- Organization: UMASS DARTMOUTH, NO. DARTMOUTH, MA.
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 05:25:02 GMT
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- Stephen,
- Some good questions there. I won't get into the theological side of
- things, but from an evolutionary standpoint it seems that we have the
- ability because it's useful, because it's an advantage in some way....
- Of course, that's wide open to attack, the best being "Well, if i4's
- useful then why can't we _all_ do it? If being able to scout out new
- territory without physical risk is an ability that showed up somewhere
- long ago, then why didn't that particular family/tribe prosper? (Likewise,
- if one individual or clan could "fetch" fruit or small animals without
- touching them, why didn't they become the dominant gene pool?)
- I don't know. The hardest part is to make the explanation satisfy
- the fact that very, very few people can do it well and reliably.... <shrug>
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- Dave
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