Reviving Extinction: Science, Ethics, and the Balance of Nature

Bias with Nature: Revival of 10000 years old wolf's using Genetic Engineering

Now, the question in my mind is: Will movies like Jurassic Park soon become reality?

Should governments form policy regulations regarding the advancement of genetic engineering and the revival of extinct species? How would the revival of species that went extinct thousands of years ago affect today’s ecosystems and their balance?

Should we even consider reviving those species?

And would it be ethically correct to revive the already extinct species which might have failed that nature's fitness test?

   As Darwin's Evolution Theory states the survival of the fittest, so can we say that majority of the already extinct species have failed the nature's test and revival of those species would be the against the Laws of Nature? But surely we can revive the species for which human are responsible for, so we can restore the balance of nature. (One would argue)

For instance, Dire wolves which has been reportedly revived based on DNA extraction from fossils and the Gene editing art, also considering the fact that their nearest neighbour matching are the grey wolves...

Indeed we could revive a lot of animals who have like their nearest relative alive or so but I don't think it would be a easy task to revive something like dinosaur because that would obviously require immense efforts and obviously large areas. I think some species especially those that went extinct due to anthropogenic (human-caused) factors could be worth reviving.

Regarding Government interference, there should only be restrictions if they see a clear threat or risk in it and have discussed among highly qualified scientists.

At last, some animals as I said the keystone ones those who got extinct due to our faults could help us restore ecological instability while some could also create some.

The creation of new organisms through any form of genetic engineering in the lab definitely has a complicated set of ethical problems. There is, I believe a growing academic literature on the ethics alone. 

Personally, I think experimentation should not stop but must be under a high level of academic scrutiny. Secondly the fundamental principle is that humans can create only what humans can control. We can control only that behaviour which is predictable. Whether it is genetics or AI the question always boils down to ‘Can we predict its behaviour and can we control it’. If we create a direwolf can we predict and control all is behaviour? The Jurassic park series always addresses this question first. The very movie is set in a controlled park in which there is proper isolation between the dinosaurs and humans. 

In many western countries we cannot even take a plant past the border. Any alien species cannot be predicted not to harm the local environment . 

So the question is part ethics and part science. Scientific predictability is important before we can discuss ethics meaningfully. Such predictability is hard with any life form - plant or animal- in a new environment.