""Steve...I know you're a decent guy, and I more or less agree with you MOST of the time, but, in your heart do you not think that as a species, we have forgotten much more of real value than we will ever learn through science and technology?""

Is it OK to call someone a luddite?

It may not have occurred to you Ake, but pretty soon we are going to need to spread out to other worlds, as we have used up most of the resources of this one.

Any such migration will require technology a quantum leap ahead of anything we have now, and our research into the origins of the universe just might supply the answers.

I don't believe that standing still and waiting for God to provide is going to help in the slightest, and neither do you.

Or does your interest in the human race not extend to those you leave behind?

Don T.