One of my favorite movies of all-time is Jurassic Park. In Jurassic Park, scientists in the future are able to bring dinosaurs back from the past by cloning them from their prehistoric DNA.
Among the various issues with the theme park, the concept of cloning has attracted a lot of attention and brought troubling implications. This idea of cloning isn’t new--it has been done with actual organisms and animals, an example being Dolly the Sheep. What strikes me the most, however, is not the technicalities of cloning, but rather the ethics of it and how humanity is at a point where simple collection of DNA has the potential to, in a sense, bring the dead back. All things considered, it seems obvious that the dramatic consequences and ramifications of cloning necessitate both the discussion and establishment of precautions and restrictions on cloning.
In retrospect, I have actually seen and read many movies about aliens or monsters being created from a lab (Frankenstein comes to mind). What particularly stood out to me in Jurassic park compared to other movies is that in Jurassic Park, the technology used for cloning organisms from DNA is far more grounded in reality. One suspenseful scene that surprised me was when one of the creatures was being unloaded in
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Ian Malcolm, remarks about “man playing God”. I was perplexed by the concept of man playing God. It was later when I came to understand that even if the intentions of cloning were valid and well-meaning, there would still be major risks. The power wielded by the humans to clone and essentially rebirth the dinosaurs has ethical flaws due to genetic engineering and the use frog DNA to fill in the missing holes of the dinosaur DNA. Nevertheless, the humans of Jurassic Park, intoxicated with their role of “God”, prove to be too carried away with their greed, and overlook the ethical aspects of their
Jurassic World was a jaw-dropping movie; however, in reality, cloning can have much more significant applications than simply making a dinosaur zoo. Ever since biologists have taken an interest in cloning in the late 1800's, many findings has progressed our knowledge about cloning. In 1996, Dolly the Sheep was the first mammal to ever be cloned. It has been 17 years since that scientific discovery; biologists have now made further findings. Researchers have now transferred their technique to the cloning of human cells. This scientific breakthrough will bring new perspectives and advance our understanding of the world. I believe that you should support cloning because it has the potential to create medical miracles, help those who would wish
Researchers at North Carolina’s Museum of Natural Sciences’ Paleontology Research Lab successfully inserted 68-million-year-old DNA of a pregnant Tyrannosaurus Rex into chicken skin cells, giving life to the first living dinosaur embryo in millions of years
Today’s technology develops so quickly that many impossible things become true; the example is cloning technology. Cloning is a process used to create an exact copy of a mammal by using the complete genetic material of a regular body cell. Different from the common propagate, cloning needs only one cell and without sex. Cloning, as of recent years, has become a very controversial issue in society but cloning can have several positive effects for the well being of society. Many people in society believe that scientists should develop a clone human but many people and especially the government are against human cloning. Hundreds of
We all remember the good old movies of Jurassic Park, Jurassic World and the new one coming soon Jurassic World the Fallen Kingdom and aren’t we all excited for the movie? People say bringing back dinosaurs is impossible, scientists don’t have the technology to do it. However, scientists do have the the resources to make a Woolly Mammoth and maybe soon a dinosaur. A Woolly Mammoth and then a dinosaur would be cool to see and discover the history of how they act but what would happen when greedy humans meet a killer dinosaur ready to kill? Just like Jurassic Park scientist could make things come back from extinction but when things get out of hand and people want money is when things get too much trouble. People will die, lives will be lost,
God made the whole earth; he formed it all with his own words and breath. In Hebrews 11:3 it says “by faith we understand that the universe was formed at Gods command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.” On the other side you have man, they are trying to make extinct animals go from non-extinct to extinct. They play God another time by being as one would say the leader or the head. The scientist mixed dinosaur DNA with a lot of other DNA.
One literary criticism states,”Hammond believes that science’s impressive logic and mechanical integrity can overcome the organic, often chaotic forces of nature, but human weakness, vulnerabilities in the technology , and above all the female dinosaurs’ unanticipated development of asexual reproduction all serve as a cautionary tale for our time” (Hamilton and Jones). This quote from an article shows the idea that Jurassic Park was created on a highly technological basis and thought of as unstoppable by Hammond. It also shows reasoning that although it was advanced with a backing of science, it still failed greatly in the end . This quote further supports the basis of Michael Crichton writing the book on technological innovation facing a highly counterproductive
A basic foundation of the Jurassic Park's view on Bioengineering Law can be found in its introduction when Crichton writes “ "Third, the work is uncontrolled. No one supervises it. No federal laws regulate it. There is no coherent government policy”(x,Crichton). However this is completely dismissed when applied to real life. Depending on what the dinosaurs would
I decided to become a problem engineer to get a living and be in the area generally with many fossils. I decided to go onto the engineering side of the campus. It was all going to change for the best. T-rex DNA was discovered to of been preserved in the tyrannosaurus femur. I read the paper. It was thought to of been decaying bacteria. Even with much of the scientific community discrediting the paper my imagination when wild. It wasn’t amber like in Jurassic Park but, my inner child was awoken. Just the idea of preserved dinosaur DNA preserved somewhere sent excitement to my mind. Amazing being surrounded by Dinosaurs. Real Animals not just movie monsters from my early childhood. Many of my family members have questioned me on by blind stupidity towards dinosaurs. They remind me what happens at the end of the Jurassic Park movies. All I will reply within a sarcastic tone, “Death by Dinosaur. How many can put that on their tome stone.” Three years later they proved that the tyrannosaurus rex cells trapped inside and preserved by the high iron consideration of blood settling inside of the leg were real. I am still chittering with excitement about the possible end
In “The Race for the Double Helix” there were five major characters that helped make the discovery of how DNA looks. The first, James Watson, was one of the more major and important characters. He and his partner, Francis Crick, made the final model for DNA. Watson however was always trying to find pieces to the puzzle by scavenging from over scientists discoveries. He would travel the world just to meet up and talk to different scientists.
Today, our society is changing so fast that we barely even notice it’s happening. Soon enough, our society will be able to do what the scientists in Jurassic Park did, and create copies of our “once exist” giants. But while science and technology evolves, we should be the ones to bring up the question not “if we can,’ but rather, “should we?” Dinosaurs are ravenous and dangerous creatures that could tear us apart into pieces, but if properly contained, could be a magnificent sight for many to view. Nature removed the dinosaurs from our planet by selection, but we can use our superior intelligence to play god through biological manipulation. In an article by Thomas Sumner and Bjorn Carey, they discuss the ethics of reviving dead species such as the ones in Jurassic Park, and denote that the technology is in our near future. “Twenty years after the release of Jurassic Park, the dream of bringing back the dinosaurs remains science fiction. But scientists predict that within 15 years they will be able to revive some more recently extinct species, such as the dodo or the passenger pigeon, raising the question of whether or not they should – just because they can” (Sumner and Carey).
Surprisingly cloning has gone to a religious standpoint. Many argue that the act of cloning makes us humans like God. Which is an equality not viewed appropriate as humans lack omniscience. Just as Ian Malcolm said, " life finds a way". He also believed that man should act as God instead
what we are doing. One of these movies, even though it might not seem like it, is Jurassic Park.
It is these errors, mistakes, and the resulting consequence that occurs from cloning animals, which must be understood to realize why it is immoral and unethical to try to clone humans.
Technology is the sole reason cloning is even possible, but it is not enough to save endangered species on its own. Due to technology, extinct species may even possible be brought back into existence. A closely related species, currently living, that could serve as a surrogate mother and a well-preserved source of DNA from the extinct
Now there are also some ways that we are playing god through cloning. For example, infertile parents could easily have a baby cloned using their DNA and women that are at high risk for Down’s syndrome can avoid that risk by cloning. Even though this sounds great we are basically changing reproduction, as we have always known it to be.