Bob Dylan, Prof John Bryant, Mitochondrial Eve & the Messianic

Complex: an informal anachronistic interview for Modern Times with the

world's greatest Dylanologist

John Bryant, Professor Emeritus of Molecular & Cell Biology at Exeter university, and sometime
Chair of Christians in Science until 2007 (extent of geographical isolation/allopatric speciation not
clear), said to me in August 2004 – in a two-part conversation about Mitochondrial Eve and
Dylanology (without intertwining the two):

'I AM a Dylanologist, actually'; and

'I don't believe He's put the fossils there to fool us, not like the young [sic(k?)] creationists.'

Er, what fossils, John? The ones that Dawkins says we don't need to find because we've got the
mtDNA proof? Bob Dylan in Nettie Moore:

When you're around all my grief gives 'way

A lifetime with you is like some heavenly day
Everything I've ever known to be right has proven wrong
I'll be drifting along
During that conversation John was expounding Out of Africa/mitochondrial Eve theory as fact, as a
'God-directed process'. 'Our ancestors came out of Africa 200,000 years ago, yeah'. Who am I to
argue with a biologist? 'Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist'. Man [Johnny?] Gave
Names to All the Animals. Before Abraham was born, I AM a hominid? John 8:58. Everybody must
get stoned. Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in global-Flood-denying uniformitarian
geology.
The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning, – no prospect of an
end. (Hutton, [1795] 1959, vol. 1, p. 200)
No vestige of a beginning, no prospect of a messianic era? Ann Gibbons, "Calibrating the
Mitochondrial Clock" Science, 2 January 1998 (vol 279, no. 5347), p. 28:
Regardless of the cause, evolutionists are most concerned about the effect of a faster mutation rate. For
example, researchers have calculated that “mitochondrial Eve” - the woman whose mtDNA was ancestral to
that in all living people - lived 100,000 to 200,000 years ago in Africa. Using the new clock, she would be a
mere 6000 years old. Of course nobody thinks that is the case.

Again from Bob Dylan's Modern Times (2006), same song:

The world of research has gone berserk

Too much paperwork
Albert's in the grave-yard, Frankie's raising hell
I'm beginning to believe what the scriptures tell
Bob Dylan to Scott Cohen for Spin magazine in 1985 – in response to the question 'What's the
messianic complex?':

... This world is scheduled to go for 7,000 years. Six thousand years of this, where man has his way, and
1,000 years when God has His way. Just like a week. Six days work, one day rest. The last thousand years
is called the Messianic Age. Messiah will rule. ...

Must be the Day only the LORD could make. A day with the LORD is like a thousand years. Make
it a million.

If Mitochondrial Eve theory keeps on leaking, levee's gonna break, John; better stick to the 24-hour
day job and just keep Dylanology as a hobby – albeit unpublished and of messianic proportions,
hiding your light under a bushel. We're living in Modern Times. Bryan Sykes eat your heart out; the
appendix, especially, to The Seven Daughters of Eve is an hilarious fable – but it enshrines great
Truth:

http://www.bobdylan.com/#/songs/levees-gonna-break

Put on your cat clothes, mama, put on your evening dress

Put on your cat clothes, mama, put on your evening dress
Few more years of hard work, then there'll be a 1,000 years of happiness
The true counterpart to Hitler's failed devilish counterfeit. Whether earthly, heavenly or figurative is
the subject of much eschatological debate, though, interestingly, the Seventh Day Adventists
fiercely oppose any notion of an earthly millennium or that the modern state of Israel could have
any relevance to what Paul calls in Romans the 'seed of Abraham' – even in the light of 11.25.
I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel
has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
Compare the teasingly titled Seven Million Years: the Story of Human Evolution by Douglas Palmer
at amazon. The blurb says that until the 19th century scientists believed in Creation & the Flood.
Palmer's title is clearly a conscious thumbing of the nose at the Genesis record and belief of the
early church fathers. Why would that be?
See Andrew Kulikovsky on Fostering Fallacy:
http://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j16_2/j16_2_31-36.pdf
No vestige of a Beginning, no prospect of an End. Nor any symmetry in the salvation history of
evolutionary creationism. And, according to Johnny, working on the mitochondrial levee mama
both night and day, no assymetry between faith and science:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/john-bryant

Faith is no impediment

19 Jan 2009:
John A Bryant: To suggest that the scientific and religious searches for truth are incompatible is a
major confusion of categories
Which is why you cannot put a paper between CiS and Richard Dawkins – unless that paper is
God. Richard Wurmbrand in Marx & Satan:
No wonder Marx praised Darwin’s book The Descent of Man, another masterstroke which makes men forget
their divine origin and divine purpose. Darwin said that man springs from the animal world.
Man was dethroned by these two. Satan could not dethrone God, so he devalued man. Man was shown to
be the progeny of animals and a mere servant to his intestines.
It is a strange coincidence that the nineteenth century gave the world three leading personalities opposed to
Christianity, all bearing the name of Charles: Karl (German for Charles) Marx, Charles Darwin, and the
French poet Charles Baudelaire. The latter wrote in “Abel and Cain”:
Race of Cain, ascend to heaven And throw God to the earth.
Bob Dylan in Spirit on the Water, from Modern Times:

I wanna be with you in paradise

And it seems so unfair
 I can't go back to paradise no more
I killed a man back there
I'd love to round off with a conclusion like in a proper scientific or humanities paper, but I'd hate to
appear to be using circular reasoning – or to have a circular notion of time.