User blog comment:BastionMonk/We CAN create dinosaurs/@comment-3213993-20121122033455/@comment-11047508-20121122220858

Hey friend, I think most of them gave good comments. There are so many issues about this that I can't discuss everything in only this blog post. But I think I'll update it. Let me just give my central points:


 * Proteins can tell us 4% of T. rex DNA
 * 10% of T. rex DNA is probably repetitive junk code
 * How can we know the rest of 86% of T. rex' DNA?
 * DNA in Amber. Never found, but could be there if we search for it.
 * Allentoft et al have shown there's probably no DNA in fossils left
 * Compare DNA of birds and reptiles and deduce the Dinosaur code.

So, we would really have to piece the T. rex genome back together using different DNA sources. I will be one hell of a job, but I don't think it is impossible.

Even when we have a complete set of T. rex DNA, there are more problems.

Remember, the whole reason we search T. rex DNA is that we don't understand how DNA creates an animal. We hope the DNA still does. However, one day we will fully understand how DNA creates an animal. At that time we don't need ancient T. rex DNA anymore. We can just design it with a computer.

Either way, in the future there will be dinosaurs.