Posted on 09/14/2009 9:02:02 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
n his recent book How to Build a Dinosaur, evolutionary paleontologist Jack Horner suggested that birds could be genetically engineered backward to take the form of their supposed dinosaur ancestors.[1] He argued that birds arose through the selection of beneficial dinosaur mutants, and if those specific mutations could be identified and reversed in a new generation, then the resulting bird-like creature would hatch and grow into something resembling a dinosaur.
One paleontologist is attempting to do just that. Hans Larsson, Chair in Macro Evolution at McGill University in Montreal, is taking the first steps toward engineering a chicken with a dinosaur tail. He told international news agency AFP that this will be a “demonstration of evolution.”[2]
But would it really?...
(Excerpt) Read more at icr.org ...
Ping!
I'm not sure what it would prove, but the coolness factor makes it a must-do.
Think of all the possibilities! I’m sure KFC is involved. :)
I’m with you
The government funds way stupider things that don’t have nearly the potential for fun
“Would a Reverse-engineered Chicken Demonstrate Evolution?”
Evolutionary science is in a unique position of having to be researched and perhaps someday being demonstrated in a lab and yet hold to the assumption that all this could happen naturally by random chance.
I’m not sure I’d like to reverse engineer chickens. The result might be both scary and prolific...
I suppose you could disassemble a tractor trailer, cut up a few parts and make a bicycle. Two conclusions you could draw from that effort:
1) that the bicycle is the ancestor of the tractor trailer and that given enough time, it would morph into one
2) that both the bicycle and the tractor trailer were designed by something or someone.
The have already done it.. turning genes back on that produce “beak teeth”, long bony tails, and other prehistoric (raptor) genetic traits.
A few years ago a Hooiser chicken farmer attempted to raise 3-legged chickens for KFC.
No, but it would prove (semi)intelligent design
God is omnipotent, all powerful and created everything. That is what makes him GOD.
I can wait to hear the details later, direct from the source.
Sounds delicious. Dinosaur noodle soup, dinosaur and dumplings, KFD.
would it still want to cross the road?
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!
I'd like to see that. Can you provide a link?
In Morgan City, LA, I once had deep-fried alligator at a chicken chain store (franchise), maybe it was a "Popeye's", can't exactly recall...
If this reverse (genetic) engineering were to work, there'd be no need to choose between chicken, or 'gator. It could all be a chicken-gator type of critter...not sure if that's such a good thing, but I might try it, at least once. After you have, of course...
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