Considering we have facilities in Japan that are storing the DNA of creatures near extinction, I'd say there's a climate for bringing them back ..
Is it right to bring back an extinct animal?
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The Last Conformist said:
It's quite a bold statement. I'm conservative when it comes to experiments, and I think that it's most likely to be a reason for that than that there isn't, whatever such reason may be.
I could be wrong, but who knows...
The Last Conformist
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I don't think my statement is particularly bold; woolly mammoths lived and thrived in environments much like those for a long time.FredLC said:It's quite a bold statement. I'm conservative when it comes to experiments, and I think that it's most likely to be a reason for that than that there isn't, whatever such reason may be.
I could be wrong, but who knows...
Che Guava
The Juicy Revolutionary
Yes, but small changes can make for big differences. A new kind of 'elephant flu' for example...
Che Guava
The Juicy Revolutionary
A little beyond the scope of this thread, dida...!
Shaihulud
Deity
I think of it more like giving the extinct animal another chance to live again, im sure they would thank us for it, if they could communicate how grateful to us. If humans were to become extinct, I will like to think that the future heirs to the human empire would clone us back as their lifestock and pets. Do we as humans have the moral right to deny the potential developement of yet to be cloned extinct animals. No!
we should not bring back extinct animals, for one thing cloning isn't perfect.
more importantly, animals go extinct because the are unable to survive in the world. if we just brought back species, it would defeat the purpose of natural selection. however, bringing back species for special zoos might be cool (but they could not be studied as they would be nothing more than clones, not the real thing)
I know it has no purpose, but I cannot think of a better way to phrase it
more importantly, animals go extinct because the are unable to survive in the world. if we just brought back species, it would defeat the purpose of natural selection. however, bringing back species for special zoos might be cool (but they could not be studied as they would be nothing more than clones, not the real thing)
I know it has no purpose, but I cannot think of a better way to phrase it
The Last Conformist
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Natural selection has no purpose. It just happens.
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Deity
Meh, they're obsolete. If we brought them back they'd just keep dying again and it would all be very expensive.
One hell of a meal if you could afford it though...
One hell of a meal if you could afford it though...
Spending tourist dollars on seeing a cloned mammoth is a lot better spending than seeing a new action flick, imho.
As we speak, there is a show on the Discovery channel about the Smilodon. I have decided that they are worthy of adulation by humans (as are all felines) and should be brought back.
Okay, seriously, the thought of that thing prowling the great plains again just scares me silly. No, they're extinct, let them stay that way.
Okay, seriously, the thought of that thing prowling the great plains again just scares me silly. No, they're extinct, let them stay that way.
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If we're going to enter some sort of Mini Ice Age soon because of global warming, this might just the right time to start bringing back the Mammoths.
Erik Mesoy
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Absolutely why not? 
JohnRM
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Dida said:
That is one scary point of view. Stay the hell away from me.
Like a couple others said, I can't think of any reason in particular why this would be a bad thing, although obviously it can have major consequences, some of which we (certainly I) can't know. It's probably a risk not worth taking.
Archbob
Ancient CFC Guardian
I'm all for them bringing back the T-rex and letting it run loose in NYC.
I have no serious problem with bringing them back, but it just seems kina odd that we are working so hard to bring back creatures that have been extinct for thousands of years, and we probably should be focusing more attention on the thousands of species near extinction today.
Conqueror '91
Crimethinker
Jurassic Park showed what might happen if extinct species were resurrected....obviously it didn't work out so well. Then again, Michael Crichton denied the existence of Global Warming, so I read anything he writes with a grain of salt...
With that said, I don't think it is right for humans to bring back extinct species. I am a fervent liberal, and believe that cloning is morally and biologically sick and wrong. Bringing back extinct species just seems like a bad idea, though I can't exactly put a finger on why. Perhaps because I believe one should not interfere too much with nature. Just let things take their course.
Whenever I think of bringing back extinct species, I get an image in my head of giant carpenter ants ravaging large metropolises or couch-sized protoflagellates slithering around....
The whole idea just gives me the creeps.
With that said, I don't think it is right for humans to bring back extinct species. I am a fervent liberal, and believe that cloning is morally and biologically sick and wrong. Bringing back extinct species just seems like a bad idea, though I can't exactly put a finger on why. Perhaps because I believe one should not interfere too much with nature. Just let things take their course.
Whenever I think of bringing back extinct species, I get an image in my head of giant carpenter ants ravaging large metropolises or couch-sized protoflagellates slithering around....
The whole idea just gives me the creeps.
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