Comments on: Cloning the Woolly Mammoth

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:30:57 +0000

Every time I read an article about this I am stunned by the amount of stupid comments left by people.

1: Playing God
This is the dumbest thing i have ever heard. Especially if when it comes from a religious person. Humans cannot play god. It’s impossible. If you believe in God then you HAVE to believe that god creates life. We don’t create life. Cloning is NOT creating life! We can only plant the seed, He makes it grow! If a baby mammoth is born a few years from now then it was god that created the life. PERIOD!

2: Bringing back diseases? What the hell is wrong with you people! Do you understand what a Virus is? How could we…I’m not even going to try to explain this one, If you believe that then you are past the point of learning. Go read a text book or something. Good lord this planet is full of dumb people.

3: Who cares if the mammoth is nice or aggressive? We have these things called guns! the mammoth was not some super powered being. It was an animal, a large animal, but just an animal all the same.Oh and they were not that much bigger than modern elephants. I have full faith that I could take one out with a semi-auto 12 gauge loaded with magnum slugs. Early humans took them out with spears for the love of god!!

The other thing I want to mention is that nobody is talking about cloning a bunch of these things and letting them loose! Mammoths would never again see the wilds. They would be in zoos for people to see and learn about. We would never reach the point of having a breeding population.

By: renee

renee — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:39:54 +0000

I THINK THIS IS A VERY DUMB IDEA TRYING TO BRING BACK TO\HE WOLLY MAMMOTH. because think about u r also going to bring back all kinds of diseases tht has gone away in the past u cant just look at how great this is going to be think about the consequences…

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:01:10 +0000

I can’t beleve the work these scientists are able to do. Who knows what we’ll
discover next.

By: Erica

Erica — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:09:46 +0000

There’s an excellent possibility that mammoths went extinct in the first place because we (meaning humans) killed and ate them all. If we drove the species to extinction, don’t we have a moral obligation to try to bring them back? Is that playing God, or just trying to set things back the way God intended? Well, actually it’s neither. It’s just playing science.

Which leads to the next related observation. If they went extinct because they were hunted for food, what if mammoth is the tastiest meat ever known to man? There’s all kinds of evidence that early Native American people hunted and ate mammoths, in spite of the fact that they were probably dangerous to get close to, hard to kill, impossible to move after you killed one, and they had no way of preserving the meat. Why go to all that trouble unless they were absolutely delish? What if we clone a mammoth and discover that it just melts in your mouth? What if this becomes a major new food source which can be raised in large numbers on otherwise useless range land in northern Canada? I say clone away and cook me up that mammoth steak medium-rare.

By: paula

paula — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:41:58 +0000

mammoth eggs using the severely damaged DNA from female mammoth mummies has failed in several attempts.

Good you people are not god ! Stop”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 31 May 2009 12:25:03 +0000

Good information for anyone
who wants to do a project on
Woolly Mammoths.

By: Dim

Dim — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:20:00 +0000

Excellent news indeed! If we can ressurect mammoths then it will just be a matter of time to get ride of all the crap diseases that infect us like diabetes, acncer, etc. Imagine the possibilities. We could even brink my grandma back to life. I could then ask her where she’s hidden that engagement ring of hers I always liked when I was a child…

By: tyler

tyler — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:36:10 +0000

They’ve probably already done this in some top secret goverment lab somewhere in the world ,they just wouldn’t tell us about it.

By: Ibelievein advancing

Ibelievein advancing — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:07:59 +0000

Our science field has fallen in certain areas, but not genetics. We have the technology, finally, to take away that endangered species list. People won’t complain about the lack of cheetas or the price of lobster because we can simply clone more of them to fill our needs. And would one wooly mammoth hurt the WHOLE planet? I think not. If it does, we can simply shoot it and the problem would be fixed. Alaska could use a mammoth or two in its vast wilderness anyway. I don’t believe it is considered “Playing God” either. I believe and deeply love God but, if I remember correctly, no where in the Bible did it say “Thou shalt not clone!” I think if God has given us the ability to move foreward, then so be it.

One Who Wants to see a Neanderthal in the Future

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:35:48 +0000

Now these are the kind of stories I like to read! It’s astounding to think how far modern day genetics-studies have come! I hope this team is able to decode the COMPLETE DNA strand… and in my lifetime because I would love to see these ice age beasts with my own eyes.