2018 BC: Don’t mess with nature because the gods are capricious and will get offended at your hubris and will punish you. AD 2018: Same except substitute some

2018 BC: Don’t mess with nature because the gods are capricious and will get offended at your hubris and will punish you. AD 2018: Same except substitute some other term for “gods”. It is manipulating nature that we learn about nature and uncover new things. Ultimately, if it had not been for farming, we would never had landed a human on the moon. Humans are the first earth species who is not limited to earth. Within our lifetimes we could have humans successfully living on another planet. Let us respect the intricacies of nature, but not get intimidated into inaction and passivity. Our human ability to adapt earth to our needs on a scale far above any other species is a feature not a bug.