| Could Extinct Animals Be Resurrected from Frozen Samples?
2009-08-20 06:59 UTC |
Futurists have proposed that extinct animals could be resurrected some day via cloning of their DNA extracted from bone or frozen tissue.
...a new project to store tiny samples of tissue from endangered animals at New York's natural history museum again prompts questions on whether this approach might be insurance against extinction...
...Spanish biologists resurrected an extinct Spanish goat, the Pyrenean Ibex, this year, cloning it from frozen tissue collected before the species' demise in 2000. The clone survived for seven minutes after birth before succumbing to a lung infection...
If they turn that hamburger back into a cow, do they get back the original cow?
Cryonics sounds nice, but are you really bringing back the original person who died?
Even if you bring back the body, its a walking body. What about the soul that left when the person died?
You need to put back the original soul. Where would you find it?
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