Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.