Totally defenseless: that’s why they’re extinct.
Led by movie-maker Peter Jackson, New Zealand scientists and entrepreneurs have launched a campaign to bring the extinct moa back to life (https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4327971/posts). We know this is gonna be a fabulous project because they’re using indigenous words.
The moas were huge flightless birds, 12 feet tall… that were wiped out by indigenous people some 600 years or so. The Maori people discovered New Zealand, settled it, and killed off the moas.
Do I hear the Jurassic Park theme in the background?
Don’t get me wrong. I’d love to see a moa. I’d love to see dinosaurs, too. [John Hammond, call your office!] But there’s something about “de-extinction” that sets off alarm bells. “So first we wipe ’em out, and then we bring ’em back! There’s money in it, folks!”
Or maybe, in the course of bringing extinct species back from oblivion, we could, well, sort of touch ’em up, improve ’em… Make ’em more profitable. It’ll be a “blend of Maori wisdom and cutting-edge genomics!
And that’s when the dinosaurs get loose and start eating people.
I wish someone would de-extinct a civil and honorable society. 🙄
Lee, the women in my sewing & knitting circle at church who’ve been praying for you asked about you today and I gave them an update. They continue to pray for you.
Thanks so much, Phoebe. Please tell them how much I appreciate their prayers.
Sounds like a plan, Lee. Instead of seeing the horrors of out-of-control dinosaurs on the big screen, we could watch the bloodbath from our living room window – uh-oh, there goes that cute little girl from down the street making that brontosaurus a nice snack.
This sounds risky to me.
Pshaw! What could possibly go wrong?
Everything. Our technology needs to be applied with wisdom, and that doesn’t seem to be happening, given some of the ideas that are seeing light of day. As to extinct species, our Creator has promised to make all things new. He’ll take care of restoring everything He created.
Well, I read some and didn’t comment much along the way. Prayers, of course. I heard a nice version of I Saw the Light today, by Josh Turner. It’s awesome.
OCF
I’ll try to find it.