Will science be able to bring back to life the woolly mammoth? Harvard University geneticist George Church has successfully copied genes from frozen woolly mammoths and amalgamated them with an Asian elephant gene. This is the first time woolly mammoth genes have been functional since they went extinct around 4000 years ago.
That would have been at the time of the flood, though researchers generally discount the biblical story of near extinction of the planet.
The research is still being worked and has not been peer-reviewed or published. But the process is called “de-extinction,” bringing back extinct species from the dead.
But don’t expect woolly mammoths to be walking around on the earth any time soon. Scientists still have to manage to get the cells from a petri dish to become specialized tissue and then coax them to behave properly.
The main point of the research so far is the hybridize elephants so that they can tolerate colder climates. But eventually, the researchers hope to experiment with further amounts of hybrid genes in elephants to see if they can get something closer to a woolly mammoth.
“But if there was one sin above another, which called for the destruction of the race by the flood, it was the base crime of amalgamation of man and beast which defaced the image of God, and caused confusion everywhere.” Spiritual Gifts, Vol. 3, page 64
“And as it was in the days of Noe…” Luke 17:26
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