http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2949629.stm
The oldest ever DNA has been found preserved in ice in Siberia. The record-breaking samples are from plants which lived there 400,000 years ago.
Most ancient DNA ever found
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Gerard
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ThiChi
So its not my mother-in-law?
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Sentinel
Hummm, just thinking that if in fact DNA survives for so long, is that creation (plant, animal, person) really "dead"? And if a person were to be cloned from such DNA, would they have a soul? Perhaps some of the earliest creations of humanoid beings were without souls, and it was only in the last creative attempt (In Eden) to make man in the "image of god".