And why should I? He’s not writing for me after all. OK, it’s Bob’s point of view, and I just don’t get it at all. Man thinks ’cause he rules the earth he can do with it as he please So in this song I am not with Bob at all. Oh and I quite like the fact that my house stays warm in winter, and I can play my Bob Dylan CDs while typing this on my PC. And actually I am interested in what it is that holds galaxies together and what forces the universe to expand ever faster. I want modern medicine to be available to myself and my family. Turning back the clock and stopping scientific exploration seems impossible – and to me unreasonable. It is the fundamental difference between the era before the 16th century when all knowledge was that which was in the Bible, and thereafter when men like Copernicus and Galileo observed and theorised, without being restricted by the Christians, except when forced to recant as for example was Galileo. Now of course that sort of experimentation could well become our downfall as we bring back to earth an alien virus that does us all in, but even so, does that risk mean we should not experiment? If we stop that a large part of our humanity goes. Like all living creatures we have evolved (unless of course you are a creationist in which case we were created as we are and the work of Darwin and the whole notion of the endlessly modified DNA is a fairy story), and we evolve by exploring, experimenting, challenging, trying, doing. While such a belief comes, I guess, out of both the Old and New Testament, when those are removed from the equation, I find it hard to grasp what can lead him to this conclusion. Why does Bob have this thing against the space exploration programme? Why does he believe that we are all doomed?

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