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Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> I don't know about Mormons, but don't many Christian sects believe that 
> humans have dominion over the earth? That we are in charge and 
> everything else is here for our benefit? To make plants closer to humans 
> probably wouldn't sit well with that philosophy.

As I watched a hummingbird the other day, I was thinking about things 
fast and slow...In our speed, in this dimension of space and time, 
hummingbirds move fast and plants move slowly.  It could be very 
different in another dimension, and the only way I can think about such 
things is to think about an elapsed time view of how a forest changes, 
for example.  If, by building a house in the forest, are we stomping on 
it's toes, making it move further away? Or will it surround us and 
incorporate us like a huge phagocytic cell?
Dominion??  Well, I think that comes from Genesis where man was created 
last to apparently watch over and tend the Garden of Eden.  However, I 
think that is just one way that Judeochristians have misinterpreted what 
was written or intended, because to tend, to care for, to cultivate 
something doesn't mean that you have absolute power over it, in fact, 
many times, it is something greater than yourself.

Bev

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