M.J. Rose

Here is a recent tidbit on the emerging field of species resurrection— an article about the remarkably preserved baby mammoth (from Atlas Obscura):

THE BEST-PRESERVED WOOLLY MAMMOTH GOES ON DISPLAY IN JAPAN, BUT SHOULD WE RESURRECT IT?

BY ALLISON MEIER

Woolly mammoth on display (photograph by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP, via hungeree)

“A prehistoric woolly mammoth that was long encased in the New Siberian Islands has gone on display in Yokohama, Japan, so visitors can see for themselves what is considered the best-preserved mammoth ever discovered.

Honestly, she’s a bit grotesque looking, all grey stretched out skin and mottled hair that seems like the barest husk of life. Some of her flesh is even shredded by long-dead predators. But considering she’s 39,000 years old, she doesn’t look too bad. The fact that there’s the orangish fur at all is remarkable, as well as the preserved trunk and broad feet. Most importantly, however, is that for the first time with a mammoth, scientists have found blood in the veins, which raises this quesion: could we resurrect the woolly mammoth?…”

For the complete piece click here.

More more on species resurrection see the Revive & Restore project. They are presenting working on bringing back extinct species. They’ve already starting with the passenger pigeon.

Quantum mechanics (the very small) and general relativity (the very large and the very fast) are the two grand theories that science uses to explain the universe – however, these two theories are totally incompatible with each other. What does this mean? Certainly it implies that nature is smarter than we are, and also, that our theories to date are only mere sketches of what we need to truly understand reality…

Is the fact that our theories contradict each other proof that there is a god, or that science is wrong? What do you think?