Superbly stated. How does a comet strike or a sudden flourish in geophysical
phenomena establish Darwinian adaptability? Speilberg probably didn't write
the script for Jurassic Park, but Michael Crighton surely assisted with, in
his writing of the scripts for Jurassic Park 1, as well as writing both
books. Terrified of intelligent computers is tantamount to be terrified of
intelligence itself. Shall we fore-go scientific advances and slag down in
the luddite sludge? This to is a receipe' for disaster too. Witness
the"vanished cultures" in North America and East Asia due to the transforming
of rich soils to laterite (depleted) soils because of over-harvesting and
grazing. Better technologies would have off-set these problems.
In a message dated 8/30/2001 2:36:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jr@shasta.com
writes:
<< Whether or not dinosaurs "had their chance" doesn't correlate in any
rational
way to the issue of responsibility in connection with bringing them back,
because there may be other factors involved in bringing them back (such as
the
possibility of acquiring important knowledge concerning the actual causes of
dinosaur extinction). So, first of all, we don't know for sure if they _did_
have their chance. As for the dodo bird, we know it never had a chance, once
humans invaded the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, so if Spielberg
equates the responsibility of bringing back extinct species with the chance
they had for survival, then of course he would conclude that it would be
responsible to bring back the dodo.
Stay hungry,
--J. R. >>
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