Cloning mammoths a very bad idea

I am responding to your article in the paper about mapping the extinct mammoth's DNA. You relate your article to the movie, "Jurassic Park," and it gives me chills to think something like this could happen today. Even though scientists today say "prehistoric species might one day be resurrected," should they be? People who saw the Steven Spielberg movie all saw how that ended up in a bloody mess. Cloning animals that have been dead for millions of years could not survive in our world today. God made them become extinct and they should stay that way. Using millions of dollars to create a first rough draft of putting 3 million building blocks of the mammoth together is a waste of money. We should use that money for more useful things like giving food to the hungry, not creating a giant elephant that could later only end up hurting us. Those brilliant scientists can use their gifted minds and clone other animals that could only benefit our society.

Torie Engblom

St. Charles