by Dr. Ada M Fisher
Not a seat was available in the first show for an updated version of Jurassic Park. The Dinosaurs were captivating and a bit different but still lacked the evolutionary feathers that would eventually give us birds, though their disproportionate gigantic size let them reign. This time they could think and communicate acting collectively to hunt for sport not food. Unfortunately their enemy could be man if he got in their way. As an aside, how one can run in high heels like Bryce Dallas Howard, the female star, was mind blowing.
As a biologist by undergraduate
degree and physician trained in Family Medicine, the possibilities of genetic
manipulation, as well as the safeguards lacking when such is unleashed were
clear and not to be disregarded. As smart and inventive as man can be, there is
a G-d who is still in charge of the underlying order though mankind often wants
to undermine such and play G-d.
Jurassic
World’s new
dinosaurs were created from taking part of the genes of one species and planting
them in another resulting in breeding out certain characteristics. This is not
unlike that done with pure bred dog combinations yielding a labradoodle or other
designer dogs as well as test tube babies bred for characteristics such as blond
hair and blue eyes or even sex with preferences for males among the Japanese.
Wheat is manipulated to deal with a changing environment which may feed the
hungry in developing nations. Clouds can be seeded to produce needed rain. This
movie gives a view of the tragedies which can be unleashed when things go wrong
when man is in control.
Though we have long believed
that one’s sex is determined by one’s 46th sex chromosomes -- X and
Y, it is not quite that simple. A spontaneous mutations can occur in cell
lines giving us people with XXY [Klinefelter’s Syndrome], Xx [Turner ’s syndrome
with a defect of one of the two xs normally expected in a female] or other
anomalies as yet to be determined. Bruce/Kaitlyn Jenner with six children from
his seed is genetically a male and his persona to female is one that doesn’t
negate his genes but does alter his realities as well as ours.
As with fences and an isolated
island for research such as was done in Jurassic World, science
makes advances without oversight and safeguards on parameters crucial to our
lives and our world. Monsanto Corporation has stored for replanting at some
point in time one of each kind of tree known to the world; thereby giving them
control of future feed stock. The Johns Hopkins University has profited
immensely from the cervical cells of one Ms. Henrietta Lacks from which a
multi-billion dollar molecular industry has spawned billions including the
genome project and many vaccines; yet her family lives in poverty. Bowman Gray
participated in the eugenics experiments on those considered mentally impaired
similar to sterilization efforts undertaken by the Nazi’s on the undesirables
for which the Republican led North Carolina Legislature has finally offered some
compensation. And daily we consume unlabeled genetically altered foods with no
understanding of its potential for harm or good.
The “Butterfly Effect” posits
that what is done at one point in time may alter the world in ways yet to be
determined at some future date. The movie San Andreas is more
fact than fiction in dealing with the world’s fault lines and resulting
potential for massive disasters without early earthquake warning systems.
California’s draughts and water controls are but one shot noting the
possibility of a water war leading to an internal civil war. The effect on the
butterflies may be but one warning system appreciating if we don’t wake up to
pay more attention to the world and our interactions with it, we may be on the
path to becoming mankind’s dinosaurs.
DR.
ADA M. FISHER IS A PHYSICIAN, A FORMER MEDICAL DIRECTOR IN A FORTUNE 500
COMPANY, PREVIOUS MEMBER OF A COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, LICENSED SECONDARY
EDUCATION TEACHER, AUTHOR, POET, GIFTED PUBLIC SPEAKER AND IS THE NC REPUBLICAN
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