Originally Posted by JoeBob
Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
Originally Posted by JoeBob

Yeah, but that’s kind of like turning a calf embryo into a Auroch as that a bird pretty much IS a dinosaur. Turn a bird into an elephant and I’ll be impressed.

A bird cannot become an elephant. The line that led to elephants separated from the line that led to birds back in the early Permian Period.


If you are correct in evolution, then with sufficiently advanced technology it should be possible. All the information is there correct?

In evolution, there's generally no turning back. An example is that mammals and reptiles that returned to an aquatic existence were incapable of re-evolving gills for breathing under water, even though there's a tremendous environmental pressure in that direction (i.e., it would constitute an enormous survival advantage). Once abandoned, however, gills cannot re-evolve. Instead, what happens is that these species become capable of holding their breath for increasingly long periods of time.