The Dangers of Trying to Play God

The resurrection of the mammoth contaminated with the Kongoli flu demonstrates one of the dangers men face when they try to play God. There are more common examples of the attempt to play God, such as decisions made about who does and does not get doses of antiserum. The people who sabotage the lab tasked with making the vaccine are also trying to play God as they decide who should live and who should die.

In the example of the mammoth, the scientists who decided to clone the mammoth tried to play God by bringing back to life a species that had been extinct for years. Bringing back an extinct species is dangerous, particularly if one does not consider why that species died. In this case, the mammoth, as well as the flu virus that killed it, were brought back...