Hello @jasonbourne4,
Bringing back extinct animals is called de-extinction.
You weren’t here the last time BioLogos had this discussion, so I thought I’d point out
a very good lecture/debate on the topic held at the American Museum of Natural History. It had an outstanding panel of experts and was moderated by Neil deGrasse Tyson. The debate is long but has real depth and is well worth watching.
Watch The 2017 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: De-Extinction
Participants include:
George Church
Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard University and MIT
Hank Greely
Director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences, Stanford University
Gregory Kaebnick
Scholar, The Hastings Center; Editor, Hastings Center Report
Ross MacPhee
Curator, Department of Mammalogy, Division of Vertebrate Zoology; Professor, Richard Gilder Graduate School
Beth Shapiro
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz