Question About Flies and Other Pests In Regard To Dinosaurs

I don't know much about biology (that reminds me of a song), but I watched it twice with my six year old grandson, so I didn't waste a minute of my life.

Remember the entire purpose of hollywood/ entertainment/ the movie
was and is
to keep you from finding the Kingdom of God by faith in Jesus.
This is the most dangerous aspect of entertainment which is accepted and acceptable by society/ men everywhere almost/ and is death dealing to most people of the world.

Whole populations of various animals have been decimated/ even made extinct,
by man.... (maybe more, maybe less, than by Yahweh/ nature/ other) .....

Disease, pestilence, plagues, poisons (manmade throughout people's bodies and houses and fields and yards and streams and lakes and rivers and oceans and the atmosphere) all contribute to death, and is very very widespread ....
(remember Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" ? exposing this very same thing....
the sequel to her book showed that in the years after it was made know,
the poisoning of the environment/ pollution of the cities/ water/ country/ animals/
GOT WORSE year after year, causing massive (millions or billions of fish, etc ) slaughter of fish, birds, bees, butterflies, earthworms, whales, frogs, etc etc etc) ...

Dynadin said:

I just watched the new jurrasic park flick. One of the more annoying things to me about the film (and those things are legion) were how the flies or mosquitoes which buzz about the sickly dinosaurs apparently have their own boom mikes. They were really, really loud is what I'm saying.
Anyway, my question is if (and I know its a big if) dinosaurs were to be cloned and more or less set free in some sort of open-aired environment, would flies and/or other pests pose a threat to the dinosaurs? It seems that modern flies and their ilk would be carriers of various diseases from which dinosaurs would have no immunity. Conversely, would these hypothetical dinosaurs likewise be a risk of spreading some sort of disease to the pests which would then transfer up the food chain?

I know there are a some on this board who know much more about biology than I and might be able to answer this question. Also I'd like to think the two hours of my life lost in that movie might serve some purpose, even if it is just curiosity.

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Dynadin said:

I just watched the new jurrasic park flick. One of the more annoying things to me about the film (and those things are legion) were how the flies or mosquitoes which buzz about the sickly dinosaurs apparently have their own boom mikes. They were really, really loud is what I'm saying.
Anyway, my question is if (and I know its a big if) dinosaurs were to be cloned and more or less set free in some sort of open-aired environment, would flies and/or other pests pose a threat to the dinosaurs? It seems that modern flies and their ilk would be carriers of various diseases from which dinosaurs would have no immunity. Conversely, would these hypothetical dinosaurs likewise be a risk of spreading some sort of disease to the pests which would then transfer up the food chain?

I know there are a some on this board who know much more about biology than I and might be able to answer this question. Also I'd like to think the two hours of my life lost in that movie might serve some purpose, even if it is just curiosity.

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Given your scenario, I think that there might be some disease risk for the dinosaurs.

OTOH, as the dinosaurs are the only life forms being brought back (i.e. no disease causing organisms), ... I don't think that the disease risk would be two-way ...

Interesting hypothetical.

yeshuaslavejeff said:

Remember the entire purpose of hollywood/ entertainment/ the movie was and is to keep you from finding the Kingdom of God by faith in Jesus. This is the most dangerous aspect of entertainment which is accepted and acceptable by society/ men everywhere almost/ and is death dealing to most people of the world.

Disease, pestilence, plagues, poisons (manmade throughout people's bodies and houses and fields and yards and streams and lakes and rivers and oceans and the atmosphere) all contribute to death, and is very very widespread .... slaughter of fish, birds, bees, butterflies, earthworms, whales, frogs, etc etc etc) ...

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I wish some of the more pesky insects would have perished in the flood, but I suppose Yahweh has a purpose for those....to "bug" me...........

That aside, in the Hebrew OT, the first 3 plagues fell on both the Egyptians and Hebrew Israelites..Exodus 8:22]..........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagues_of_Egypt

3. Lice (כִּנִּים)
Exodus 8:16
And Yahweh is saying to Moses "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out! thee thy rod, and smite the soil of the land'." And the lice becomes in all of land of Egypt.'

The 8th plague to hit Egypt in the OT was the "locusts".

8. Locusts (אַרְבֶּה)
Exodus 10:12
And Yahweh saith unto Moses, `Stretch out! thy hand against the land of Egypt for the locust,
and it goeth up against the land of Egypt, and doth eat every herb of the land--all that the hail hath left.'

Locusts, which can cause famine when they swarm upon crops and vegetation, are also mentioned in the Christian NT book of Revelation.

https://www.christianforums.com/threads/revelation-9-tormented-5-months-and-scorpions.8072257/

Revelation 9:
1 Then the fifth Messenger trumpets, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth,
and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss.
2 The star opened the pit/well of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace,
and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.

3 And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.
4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
5 The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.
6 In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.
7 And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads, and faces like the faces of men

I am not too crazy about hornets either [tho the F-18 Hornet is pretty nifty]

Deuteronomy 7:20
“Moreover Yahweh your Elohim will send the hornet among them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed.

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