Scientists Are Bringing Back Extinct Species

“There are things man was not meant to know (or do) ” is the theme behind most of the cheap sci-fi movies of the last century. Perhaps it started with Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, but space travel, nuclear power and countless other things have been portrayed as dangerous, deadly and the product of human arrogance. What was that story about Icarus trying to tell us?

If we hadn’t “messed with” Mother Nature we’d never have become a species, much less a successful one. Our very morphology reflects a million or so years of technology, small jaw, small teeth, much smaller digestive system and of course large brain. Mostly because we invented, knives and fire and weapons. OK maybe not large enough brains, but it beats the chimps. Remember when it gets to be 20 below how it messes with nature when you turn the heat on.

We are not even capable of living without technology. Most of our occupied territory would be uninhabitable without modifying nature.

Evangelista Torricelli was punished by the Church because his barometer “messed with nature” most scientists were and even Ben Franklin faced the wrath of the retros for flaunting god/nature with his lightning rod. At least we didn’t hang the Wright Brothers because you know, man was not meant to fly. Don’t even start on the hubris of vaccines and antibiotics much less GMOs.

Besides it wasn’t necessarily nature that made many species extinct. We did it. It amazes me that the technophobic spirit persists as it does. Yes our success has overpopulated the planet, but that wasn’t a technological choice – it was Mother Nature.