Ch. 19 Multiple Universes
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Let each member of the study group say aloud "I do this exercise because . . . " and then attempt to state "all" the reasons. For instance, you will do this exercise because you have entered this class. Why did you enter this class? How did you get interested in the topics discussed in this book? How did you find this class? How did you arrive in this particular city of all the cities on this planet?
Carry the analysis further. How did you happen to be born? That is, how did your parents come to meet and mate? How did they come to be born? Amid all the wars, earthquakes, famines and other disasters of human history how did those genetic strains which combined in you survive when so many other genetic strains disappeared?
How did this continent emerge from geological evolution? Can you estimate how many migrations, wars of conquest, economic upheavals, etc., led to the genetic strains of your father and mother coming together?
Attempt in at least a rough, vague way to account for the formation of the planet Earth and the appearance of life on Earth.
When each member has had a chance at this game consider the improbability of all of you coming together on this night, of all the nights of your lives, to do this exercise.
It will probably prove necessary to do this exercise at least three times before the full meaning sinks into the neurons.
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