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Mammoths may roam again after 27,000 years
Times on line/ Drudgereport ^ | Aug. 15, 2006 | Mark Henderson, Science Editor Times on line

Posted on 08/15/2006 4:46:58 AM PDT by thiscouldbemoreconfusing

BODIES of extinct Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years may contain viable sperm that could be used to bring them back from the dead, scientists said yesterday.

Research has indicated that mammalian sperm can survive being frozen for much longer than was previously thought, suggesting that it could potentially be recovered from species that have died out.

Several well-preserved mammoth carcasses have been found in the permafrost of Siberia, and scientists estimate that there could be millions more.

Last year a Canadian team demonstrated that it was possible to extract DNA from the specimens, and announced the sequencing of about 1 per cent of the genome of a mammoth that died about 27,000 years ago.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: creation; dna; evolution; godsgravesglyphs; iceage; mammoth
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To: RogueIsland

There'll be no citation, I assure you.


41 posted on 08/15/2006 5:22:01 AM PDT by cydcharisse
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To: Lazamataz
You have identified exactly what I was riffing off of. I figured if this poster made up numbers, I could too.

You were subtle. The problem with subtlety is too many of us learn only when a sledgehammer is applied to our cranium.

42 posted on 08/15/2006 5:23:47 AM PDT by HayekRocks
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To: ChristianDefender
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43 posted on 08/15/2006 5:23:51 AM PDT by satchmodog9 (Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
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To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing

How long before they blame the Woolly Mammoth's extiction on Bush?


44 posted on 08/15/2006 5:24:18 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (¡Salga de los Estados Unidos de América, invasor!)
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To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing
How creationist loose in court is beyond me.

Commie and pinko judges.

45 posted on 08/15/2006 5:24:34 AM PDT by tomzz
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To: Lazamataz
Boy, does that bring back memories of the 60s!

Thanks!

46 posted on 08/15/2006 5:26:04 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (¡Salga de los Estados Unidos de América, invasor!)
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To: cripplecreek
I was figuring a gajillion years would pretty much cover it.

Evolutionists would make more sense, but they say that wooly mammoths have been extinct for a trintillion skadillion years.

And we all know they've only been extinct for eleventy-papillion years.

47 posted on 08/15/2006 5:29:00 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
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To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing

A stuffed mammoth would look good next to my stuffed dodo bird. Except I'd have to bust down a wall and kick my wife out of her craft room to make space. Maybe if she sat on top of the mammoth and did her crafts...


48 posted on 08/15/2006 5:29:02 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Nothing happens in a vacuum until I get there - the 4th Law of Physics)
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To: Lazamataz
They live among us


49 posted on 08/15/2006 5:29:31 AM PDT by kidd
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To: satchmodog9
There goes my breakfast....thanks a whole lot.
50 posted on 08/15/2006 5:30:03 AM PDT by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing
First evolutionist said that the mammoth has been extinct for billions of years, then it was millions of years...

The standard for evidence must be formidable in Alabama.

51 posted on 08/15/2006 5:31:22 AM PDT by Young Scholar
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To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing

I predict this will be mammoth thread.


52 posted on 08/15/2006 5:33:06 AM PDT by Condor51 (Better to fight for something than live for nothing - Gen. George S. Patton)
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How creationist loose in court is beyond me.

It's Bush's fault placemarker

53 posted on 08/15/2006 5:33:21 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Here to help)
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To: edpc

"...OK...but for what purpose? Is there a big demand for Mammoths out there?..."

I'd like to have a pet mammoth.


54 posted on 08/15/2006 5:35:49 AM PDT by Renfield
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To: Young Scholar

In Alabama the tusks are loosa.


55 posted on 08/15/2006 5:36:05 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing
First evolutionist said that the mammoth has been extinct for billions of years, then it was millions of years and now it is but 27,000 years.

No one ever said that mammoths have been extict for billions of years - or millions of years. We have always known that mammoths existed until a man hunted them to extinction after the last ice age.

You are obviously confusing mammoths with dinosaurs - that HAVE been extinct for millions of years.

56 posted on 08/15/2006 5:37:16 AM PDT by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing
So man and mammoth walked the earth together, wow, Dawin must be rolling over in his grave.

Why?

If you're going to try to "refute" evolution, it might be helpful to at least read an elementary school textbook on the subject. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Here's a hint for free: Because a species is extinct doesn't mean that it went extinct millions of years ago. The dodo hung around long enough for European explorers to see them in the New World. The passenger pigeon and the Carolina parakeet were around long enough for my grandfather to see them.

That mammoths coexisted with humans is not controversial. There is abundant evidence (ooooh, that word) of mammoths hunted and butchered by humans. It is fairly widely accepted that hunting by humans played a role in their extinction, but how great of a role is still the subject of debate.

The fact that you were heretofore ignorant of these facts does not make them new, and certainly doesn't poke any holes in a body of science that was aware of them long ago. Your own ignorance doesn't make much of an argument.

57 posted on 08/15/2006 5:37:21 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: Renfield
I'd like to have a pet mammoth.

Everyone says that until they have to change the litter box.

58 posted on 08/15/2006 5:40:40 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Here to help)
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To: Oztrich Boy
It's Bush's fault placemarker

It's Cheney's pacemaker's fault.

59 posted on 08/15/2006 5:43:01 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
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To: Oztrich Boy

Who let creationists loose in court anyway?

Perhaps he meant "lose in court". In which case the explanation (in the case of Dover) might be that the creationists were repeatedly caught telling demonstrable lies.

Or I suppose it could have been the (GWB appointed republican) commie pinko judge never giving the righteous a chance.

Or maybe it was when the star ID witness said that ID has the same scientific justification as astrology, and that it would be OK to teach that God might be dead in science-class.

I wonder what any of this has to do with an interesting mammoth story?


60 posted on 08/15/2006 5:43:29 AM PDT by Thatcherite (I'm PatHenry I'm the real PatHenry all the other PatHenrys are just imitators)
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