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Post by swamprat on Oct 20, 2012 16:01:33 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Jan 4, 2013 21:03:29 GMT -6
I just watched this video for the first time and it was kind of fascinating. Michio always has a way of making things sound interesting and I actually learned quite a few things from it. I learned that prehistoric chickens used to have webbed feet like ducks, that soft tissue containing genetic material has been recovered from inside the bones of dinosaurs, and that the entire gene sequence of a neanderthal has been recovered. Scientists are now questioning whether or not they should "clone" a neanderthal...or rather whether or not they will try to and how much it will cost. I don't think the question of "should" they do it ever was brought up. That is the question that I think really needs to be asked though. A neanderthal isn't a frog or a lizard or a sheep or some other animal. They are almost as human as we are. In fact some people still posess quite a few neanderthal genes in them. Would it be morally ethical to clone someone who would be almost human but never human enough to totally fit into society? What would life be like for them? Would they be raised in a lab? Locked in a cage like an animal? Brought up as a "retarded" child in a family? I don't really like the thought of that.
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Post by CitizenK on Jan 5, 2013 1:38:39 GMT -6
If you ask me, we are at teh threshold of where our creator(s) were many moons ago when they/he/sh/it was first creating things like us...I can't say that I agree with doing such stuff (us) but I can't say we shouldn't either. Perhaps this could be our giant step for mankind on the evolutionary or ...it could be Pandora's box .
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2013 13:53:48 GMT -6
"Jurassic Park" comes to mind . I'm not a big "fan" of cloning. If we take it down a step and "remake" an organ, such as a liver or a heart for replacement to save ones life or to find a cure for let's say parkinsons disease, and then that person carries life on by having a baby or passes his or her cloned genes onto another generation, what will happen to that child concerning possible defects ? It's too early on to mess with this imho. The unknowns are there.There have been some tests done that did not have good results in cloning research. Others were o.k. , or were they to the next generations ? Suppose a species just becomes extinct. Should we bring it back ? The questions which arises then is : How far back should they go ? As for Skywalker's question about a neanderthal child ; I think it's a bad idea also for the reasons he presented.
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Post by lois on Jan 5, 2013 19:26:57 GMT -6
Darn . the link won't work for me..
I got it now..
I would not want to go back to the gene which gives one hair. Can you imagine that? ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2013 21:01:53 GMT -6
For every action... Every time we monkey with things..we mess it up. Look at the dog and cat breeds we have made 'better'. If we made a neanderthal..what about it's rights? Does it get to vote or live in a lab? Jurassic Park does indeed come to mind..you cannot control all aspects of your creation..and if your creation has a brain..and instincts..does it also have a soul? Being a creator is big business and too many of our creator types aren't interested in the rights of that which they create. Nope..thumbs down on playing God.
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