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Re: Some questions for science majors
Posted By: Brunnen-G, on host 203.96.111.200
Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at 21:23:39
In Reply To: Some questions for science majors posted by Eric Sleator on Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at 18:48:55:

> Why do magnetic attractions exist?
> Why do organisms have the instincts to survive and to reproduce?
> Why does gravity exist?
> How in the world did music come into existence and become ingrained in virtually all of humanity?
>
> -Eric Sleator
> Tue 18 Jun A.D. 2002

I'm not a science major but the most obvious answer to question 2 is natural selection. Any species that *doesn't* have an instinct to survive and reproduce is only going to last one generation.

Brunnen-"and it would be such a short, boring generation, too"G

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