Well, as you note, it works well with deer (and bears) why not something bigger? You seem to assume we couldn't control it like other species.
Yeah, I know it wasn't only 2,000 years.. but even 6,000 years is insignificant in the scheme of.. time.Originally posted by: Vic
As I've seen this same mistake twice in the last 2 days (by 2 different posters)... to clarify a misunderstanding, Creationists believe that the world is at least 6,000 years old. Not 2,000 (how would that make sense when Christ was have lived 2,000 years ago and there's the entire Old Testament before Him?).Originally posted by: Eli
Oh my dear fscking lord.Originally posted by: Nik
Because the whole idea of "millions" of years is a falicy, but that's a whole nother conversation.
How can you sleep at night thinking that the universe or even that rock over there is only a couple thousand years old?
It makes my head hurt. There are trees that are alive and over 4,000 years old.
Gah!
lol
And the 6,000 years is only the time since Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eve, so there could have been a nearly unlimited time before then.
I personally don't believe either way (preferring to stick with things I know rather than other peoples' guesses), but I just thought I'd clear this up.
As for why I think cloning T-rex's would be a bad idea... well, IMO people have very large misconceptions about humans and nature. The "Disney" myth, I call it. The belief that animals and nature are good and humans are bad (the corollary of this being that people think that humans are not part of nature, which is a ridiculous belief to have, especially for people who claim to believe in evolution). A geat example I can think of right now on this topic is from the first Matrix movie. Agent Smith tells Morpheus that he thinks that humans are more like viruses than mammals because only humans reproduce and spread until all their resources are consumed, and other mammals don't as they seek a "harmony" in nature. That's complete bullsh!t. Unless contained by predators, ALL animals reproduce and spread until all their resources are consumed. Dr. Malthus proved this 200+ years ago. Uncontained by predators and/or hunters, deer will reproduce until they've eaten all their grass and then they'll die of starvation, which is why limited deer hunting is actually good for the deer population.
So... if humans re-introduce T-rex's, we will have to become their predators in order to control them, or else T-rex's (like all other forms of life) will reproduce and spread as far as they can. And I have this feeling that T-rex's and humans won't get along too well.
Originally posted by: Phoenix86
Well, as you note, it works well with deer (and bears) why not something bigger? You seem to assume we couldn't control it like other species.
Why would we allow them to reproduce to that point anyways? Come on, just put them one an isle and modify their genes so only there are only females. Surely they are easier to control.
Originally posted by: Orsorum
Originally posted by: Nik
Because the whole idea of "millions" of years is a falicy, but that's a whole nother conversation.
Elaborate, please.
Originally posted by: EpsiIon
Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Wow, and they can charge anything they want: two thousand a day, ten thousand a day, and people will pay it. And then there's the merchandise... oh wait...
Here, take the ethics quiz on this subject
I got 10/10 without reading the article
Easy quiz.
4/8 for meOriginally posted by: Schadenfroh
Originally posted by: Orsorum
Originally posted by: Nik
Because the whole idea of "millions" of years is a falicy, but that's a whole nother conversation.
Elaborate, please.
nik is trolling
Huh?
More like a couple hundred thousand (millions?).Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
I wonder if the "big oil" companies are getting interested in this, and in dino cloning. Just think, perhaps in the future, in order to have a sustainable supply of oil, we will have "dino farms", much like "tree farms" (for reforestation projects). The dinos would be raised to a certain size, and then thrown into a tarpit, to flail around and eventually suffocate and die (PETA would be all over this, of course), and eventually the dinos in that one spot would build up, and the oil companies would start another "tar pit", and then after a few hundred (thousand??) years had passed, go back and pump out the oil. Profit!
I think you can make oil with pretty much any organic stuff.Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
I wonder if the "big oil" companies are getting interested in this, and in dino cloning. Just think, perhaps in the future, in order to have a sustainable supply of oil, we will have "dino farms", much like "tree farms" (for reforestation projects). The dinos would be raised to a certain size, and then thrown into a tarpit, to flail around and eventually suffocate and die (PETA would be all over this, of course), and eventually the dinos in that one spot would build up, and the oil companies would start another "tar pit", and then after a few hundred (thousand??) years had passed, go back and pump out the oil. Profit!
Originally posted by: Howard
I think you can make oil with pretty much any organic stuff.Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
I wonder if the "big oil" companies are getting interested in this, and in dino cloning. Just think, perhaps in the future, in order to have a sustainable supply of oil, we will have "dino farms", much like "tree farms" (for reforestation projects). The dinos would be raised to a certain size, and then thrown into a tarpit, to flail around and eventually suffocate and die (PETA would be all over this, of course), and eventually the dinos in that one spot would build up, and the oil companies would start another "tar pit", and then after a few hundred (thousand??) years had passed, go back and pump out the oil. Profit!
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