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Kasz216 on 29 September 2010
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Lafiel said:
Kasz216 said:

I don't see why.

I don't get why people are so against "Genetic engineering."

I mean, the eugenics craze gave it a bad name, but that was because they didn't know shit about genetics.

Bringing back the dinosaurs so kids could see them?  What's so bad about that.

Hell what's so bad about genetically engineering festuses?

I mean, tell me someone who has a recessive taysachs gene wouldn't be better off having their child genetically engineered rather then getting taysachs.  Getting rid of all those genetic diseases and mental retardation.

Why are people against that?

Espiecally athests!  It just feels like Atheists holding on to the "not messing with gods work" angle.

But hell, doesn't medicine already do that? 

About that example in particular it would probably be a result of much much much trial and error, meaning that hundreds of thousends or millions of young "birds" would be needed to test out which combination of genes actually creates sth. that is able to live - and as I said it wouldn't be a dinosaur, it would be a "dinosaur-esque" being, which is created from dinosaur DNA segments (and bird DNA segments to fill the holes), but not from a real dinosaur genome

I'm aware that humans do horrible things to mice/rats, rabbits, apes and so on for testing medicine (etc) anyway, but bringing back "dinosaurs" isn't really all that vital to us.

I think that's also the main concern about medical use of genetic engineering, for testing would probably have to mostly be done with humans/human ova, which is a moral problem even if you are not religious, no?

Thousands and millions seems a bit high if you ask me.  Like 99% of cloning deaths and problems occur before animals come to term.  It's pretty much all non-pregnancy.

I mean we've already cloned near extinct animals and even a few extinct ones.

Eating animals isn't vital either.  Yet we do that. 

You don't think there isn't stuff we could learn from dinosaur like beings?

Also, we do actually have some dinosaur soft tissue.