Tuesday, April 13, 2004

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Questions About Food Based on the Assumption That Evolution Occurs

The following two links are on very different subjects.

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/phytochemicals/

http://www.beyondveg.com/

The common denominator between the two is that they both base their
findings on the assumption that eating has evolved as it has, over
time, in response to inhospitable, even life threatening, conditions
on this planet that we inhabit.

My questions, for the time being, are:

What meaning can "evolution" have outside of the consciousness of the
Human mind that perceives time as a ray.

It there really "progress" and "process" or do we organize the world
such?

Why in the world should conditions in this world be inhospitable,
even life threatening?

Is it really the case that the world is malevolent and that all
organisms have had to evolve under stress, developing defensive and
offensive mechanisms of survival? Or is that an artifact of the
Human mind?

If it is an artifact of the Human mind, why do we think this way?

Is there another way of thinking about the world we live in that will
not only explain more phenomena, but will afford us the opportunity
to live more peacefully, with less stress and more in harmony with
other phenomena?

The discussion is open.

Doreen