Without reincarnation we might have the mistaken idea that the universe is ruled by death. Within a few milliseconds of the Big Bang 96% of the matter and energy that emerged from the void collapsed back into it. The remaining fraction still winks in and out of existence, but so rapidly that matter looks solid and permanent. In fact everything solid is transitory; every particle in existence is oscillating in and out of the void, giving the illusion of solidity because our senses aren't quick enough to catch the vibration. The new particle that emerges is never exactly the same as the one that vanished, which is how nature manages time, location, electrical charge, spin, and other basic properties that require stability and change simultaneously.
The same is true for you and me. We exist as a fluid product of change and stability. Our brains look the same from moment to moment, but the activity of neurons is never exactly the same--a brain is like a river where one cannot step into the same place twice. DNA reincarnates when the genes of one parent split in half in an act of creative suicide to join with the genes of the other parent. The very fact that DNA can replicate itself doesn't involve the death of the mother cell, but produces new genetic material that leads to new flesh, and the root word of incarnation means flesh, from the Latin 'carneus'.
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