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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (24018)	7/30/1998 8:03:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The Christian communities in Northern Luzon use the term pagan when referring to their non-Christian neighbors, and I adopted it without much thought. "Animist" is probably a much better term. I probably shouldn't romanticize the tribal life. It is entirely true that well into this century there were blood feuds between villages or groups of villages, and headhunting was a common practice. They have, however, come up with a unique blend of traditional practice and modern law that now keeps peace extremely well within communities and has almost completely removed intertribal conflict. They have also retained pretty complete control of their ancestral land, which is very rare anywhere in the world... but I shouldn't get started on this particular subject. I think it's true that small communities anywhere are more peaceful than large ones. Interesting to observe that in overall terms of human evolution the large community is an extremely recent development. It's not surprising that we haven't figured out how to deal with it yet. But as humans are capable of conscious evolution, I suspect it would be a good idea to look carefully at tribal societies, and try to understand as well as observe. I think they may remember a few important things that we've forgotten. To jump into another debate, I don't see any inherent conflict between evolution and creation. The creation of a system capable of evolution is an infinitely greater and more subtle act then the piece-by-piece manufacture of a static world. Steve