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About the origional post, I follow the same idea generally. We are emotionally connected to nature because it was evolutionary benefical to do so. Having an interest and reverance for the world around us allowed us to observe all of creation, and to use its soultions to problems as our own. We saw animals living off fruit from trees and other plants and began to use and nurture them as our own. We saw the seasons come and go with a predactable rythem and made our own interpretations (early religions) and calenders. We saw caves sheltered us from the weather and made our own.
While it is easy to read further than a biological cause for our interest in things natural, I don't find it at all nessicary.
Even Karma can be looked at as an evolutionary Meme (or Teme?) that helps to keep us from self destructing. Real or not it has a tangebale effect on those who follow it.
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NASA found out in the beginnings of the space program that pens would not work in space. SO NASA spent millions of dollars and a good year and a half developing a pen that does not need gravity to draw the ink down.
The Russians just brought pencils...
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