“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

Jurassic Park isn’t really a warning about dinosaurs; it’s a warning about us. We look at the untamable chaos of deep time—65 million years of wild, ruthless evolution—and our first instinct is to put a ticket booth next to it. We suffer from the delusion that if we can sequence the DNA, we can master the outcome. But nature doesn’t respect electric fences or corporate spreadsheets. The T-Rex didn’t break out because of a fallen tree; she broke out because we forgot we were never the ones in charge. Life finds a way, and it usually finds a way to humble us.