jwelcher

"We are as gods and HAVE to get good at it."

Recreating life is pretty godlike. Aside from cleaning up our past destruction (causing extinctions, altering climate, polluting), are there any FUN godlike powers we should be practicing?

I think you have just come up with the most popular slogan from the Clone Uprising of 2082.

"I see a few downvoters. Would some of you speak up and say why?"

There is a semi-stochastic process "fuzzing" process going on, and as reddit says, those numbers are not exactly "real": http://www.reddit.com/wiki/faq#wiki_how_is_a_submission.27s_score_determined.3F

That said, there are always reddit Creationists afoot to fight with the infamous reddit Atheists, so maybe you are seeing blowback from attempting to tamper with God's design! "Some animals should go extinct, that's just unconscious knowledge." -- kinda Jane's Addiction

Is there an "anticipatory" branch of the "Revive and Restore"? Though it might be "cheating", are you working with DNA banks or other groups to collect/preserve DNA from species with only a few members left, so that they can be reintroduced "soon"? At least you'd be able to start with the full genome.