blog #1. Imagine if we could bring extinct creatures back from the dead. many of the species that where helpful to the earths ecosystem that were also destroyed by humans could be brought back to restore much of the planets former glory. scientists now have the technology in biosynthetic engineering to build back the genome of extinct species, by combining DNA with their closest living relatives. for example to bring back the passenger pigeon (a bird that used to cloud the sky's by the millions until trophy hunting,) scientists could combine its DNA with that of the short tailed pigeon to create the bird, they could then place the embryo in a bird like a chicken to be nurtured and hatched. theoretically the bird could be nurtured by short tailed pigeons. People could eventually bring back the wooly mammoth. I think it is amazing and wonderful that people could restore extinct animals that we have laid west too. but what I see is it seems that whenever people try to control nature in enormous ways we screw something up in an enormous way. I also see that people often take wonderful things and take them too far until they are ugly. non the less it is such a hopeful prospect I would be hard pressed to say no to it. I do know for sure that humans need to repair in some way and look back to our roots for wisdom and healing.