who fell to the earth and became as if they were dead,
It is often that when the peoples of the Book of Mormon become astonished that they fall to the earth and pass out. In population genetics, perhaps this is genetic trait selected and passed by those who in battle passed-out and where left for dead but were not dead and thus they survived and passed on this ‘pass-out’ gene which proved beneficial to the population and their progeny as a survival mechanism in time of war. The pass-out gene would also be manifest in other astonishing events.
