Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Recently, Time Magazine announced that biotechnology company, Colossil, resurrected the dire wolf, a species that went extinct thousands of years ago.

This is Remus, read the caption over a photo of a scary looking white wolf. He's a

dire wolf the first to exist in over 10,000 years. According to Colossal, that's only the first

step in resurrecting other long extinct animals like the woolly mammoth. So it turns out the

headline was a bit of an exaggeration. Remus, his brother Romulus, and their sister Colise

contained no DNA from the dire

wolf. Rather, they were modern gray wolves with genes that were tweaked by the company in order

to mirror the DNA of the dire wolf. And they were more than likely engineered to look more like

the fictional giant wolves of HBO's Game of Thrones than anything else. The most common comment on the time

story was some variation of the same sentiment, quote, I've seen this movie and it never ends well.

And of course, most people likely had in mind Jurassic Park, that movie in which a company

uses genetic technology to bring back dinosaurs. Spoiler alert, that didn't end well either.

In fact, the seventh installment of the franchise

will release this summer, each containing the same message as the original 1993 film. Just because

we can do something doesn't mean we should do something. In fact, dozens of movies reflect this

thinking and the dangers of things like genetic tinkering, human reengineering,

and other forms of scientific hubris. From the island of Dr. Moreau to Gatiga to the planet of

the apes to the island, not to mention about half of all zombie movies ever made, we have been

thoroughly warned about the illusion of human control over nature. Maybe all of this is just about directors

needing to spruce up a plot. Or perhaps there's a surprising amount of wisdom in the arts that's

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