What good is a banana that doesn't get eaten?

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Dan Saffer <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Dec 19, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Angel Marquez wrote:
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> >>nothing was created specifically to meet a human need
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> I'm not sure if I agree with this. I just ate a banana and it was good. Did
> my ancestors not eat bananas?
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>
> I'm sure they did, but the banana wasn't "designed" to be eaten by humans,
> to fulfill our hunger. (Your theology may vary.)
>
> Like all plants, its purpose is to reproduce itself, and the fruit evolved
> as an efficient means to assist the plant in doing that.
>
> Dan
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>
>
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