I have to agree, the movie is better off for its exclusion. I think it was the whole experimentation with animals angle that might have killed any sympathy the audience would have had for Goldblum's character. Probably the weakest special effects scene aside from the lame butterfly baby ending that was also cut. I would have liked the creature to stand on its own more like the computer screen had rendered in wireframe.
The movie's finale is in the hopper but nobody's voting for it. :(