To: Drew68
It would seem to me that if evolution is the way of the world it would work both ways. It should be possible to de-evolve our DNA to the starting point and we would have all of the missing links plus our ancestors.....Want a T.Rex; de-evolve a bird, or what ever........
To: lmailbvmbipfwedu
> Want a T.Rex; de-evolve a bird, or what ever........
Already been partially done. Chicken (IIRC) DNA was tinkered with, and some dormant genes were re-activated, producing chickens with teeth.
35 posted on
04/18/2005 8:29:01 AM PDT by
orionblamblam
("You're the poster boy for what ID would turn out if it were taught in our schools." VadeRetro)
To: lmailbvmbipfwedu
It would seem to me that if evolution is the way of the world it would work both ways. It should be possible to de-evolve our DNA to the starting point and we would have all of the missing links plus our ancestors.....Want a T.Rex; de-evolve a bird, or what ever........ We'd have to know the T-Rex's DNA before we could do that. Trial and error would probably not be a viable way to turn an ostrich into a T-Rex.
If we knew what a T-Rex's DNA was in the first place, we would not need to "de-evolve" other species into T-Rex, we could simply use the DNA to create a T-Rex from scratch.
42 posted on
04/18/2005 8:30:53 AM PDT by
Modernman
("I'm in favor of limited government unless it limits what I want government to do."- dirtboy)
To: lmailbvmbipfwedu
You can't UNcarve wood.
Evolution does not work that way. You could never really go back to a common ancestor any more than you could take appart an 2005 cadalac and find an 1959 el dorado underneath. (darn)
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