Pros And Cons Of Reviving Species By Carl Zimmer

The possibility that mammoths, passenger pigeons, saber-toothed cats, and thylacine may roam the very earth our feet stand upon once again is a thrilling, yet apprehensive thought. Carl Zimmer proposes this very idea in his essay “Reviving Species” and gives feedback on the topic of de-extinction. According to Zimmer, de-extinction is defined as, “The notion of bringing vanished species back to life”, and he elaborates the pros and cons of actually completing this ordeal (31). Reading the differentiating views on the subject is very interesting, and caused me to think more and more as to if bringing back the extinct species is for the good or bad of our world. But as a firm believer in Christianity, I feel de-extinction is a sensitive subject and is “… playing God.”, especially if
Just because something can be done doesn't mean it should be done. A little clone bucardo, named Celia, changed the world’s perspective on extinction in a matter of the ten struggling minutes. This trial that took place in 2003, where reproductive physiologists created a clone from the DNA of a now extinct animal, the bucardo, and implanted a number of eggs in 57 goats. Only one goat had a successful birth. Unfortunately, ten minutes after the bucardo clone was born, Celia, she had died because of a grown-in lobe on her lung. Since the cloning had occurred, scientist have been exploring and discovering new and improved ways to revive an extinct animal, and have found that it is, indeed, possible. Activists of de-extinction want to provide redemption to these creatures since we, as human beings, were the ones who destroyed their kind in the first place. Fernandez-Arias is one of the many researchers who is