Cloning and Jurrasic Park
Imagine flipping through the channels on TV one afternoon, and you stop because you see Einstein sitting there, in color, talking and to Oprah no less. You're thinking to yourself, how in the world is this possible, Einstein died over 40 years ago. Oprah is also sitting there talking to him, calling Einstein Al, as if she has known him her whole life. It's surprising also because Einstein is also sporting a new pair of cargo pants, fresh from Abercrombie and Fitch, and a slicked back Pat Riley haircut, not the typical wavy uncombed hair that you are used to seeing in all those posters of Einstein. After watching this for several minutes, you finally realize two things. The first thing is that somehow scientists have found a way to clone Albert Einstein from using his DNA. Second you have realized that even though Einstein has been dead for over 40 years, somehow he has managed to evolve by conforming to things that are "hip" in today's world. The first big fuss over cloning started when director Steven Spielberg and writer Michael Crichton came out with the movie "Jurassic Park" in the summer of 1993. The film raised my new issues that had not really been brought to the public's attentio
The whole question of evolution is brought into this film also. In the scene in the biology lab, the group views the newly hatched egg of a velociraptor. Malcolm once again puts in his two cents about evolution. He states, "If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it's that life will not contained. Life breaks free. It expands to new territories, it crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh, well, there it is! ... I'm simply saying that, uh, life finds a way." Malcolm is noticeably presenting his idea that the scientists have pretty much taken over the role of God, and just taking on his idea's as if they were now in charge with all life. They didn't take into account that possibly these animals were taken off the face for a reason. They disregard this idea, therefore disregarding God himself. They decided to image God, and perform a task of creating life, which up until this point in all history has only been done by one individual, God. Therefore God is no longer needed. While this film created a huge shake up in what people actually believed scientists could actually do is really far fetched. Most of the comments made by Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg were just made to sell the movie. What the movie did do was show to everyone that science is almost getting to the point where there are no boundaries. Everyone needs to get involved and stay informed of what is going on in lab all over the world. Such studies need to be monitored as illustrated by the chaos that was created as man tried to play God, and create his own controlled world. No man can fully control life other than the big guy upstairs, God himself. n. What would be a better way then a high budget, special effect filled, dinosaur movie to bring everyone and their sister to the movies to see this film and make them aware of these ideas. These ideas are biotechnology, science and evolution. Now everyone thought that scientists had the power to clone and create extinct dinosaurs from over 150 million years ago from little insects found in 150 million year old amber. Jurassic Park did its job in informing almost all of America of the dangers of biotechnology first of all, but also science in general. The author Michael Crichton made this comment in a Newsweek article, "Biotechnology and genetic engineering are very powerful. The film suggests that
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