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‘Junk DNA’

Letter from Michael Behe that a chemistry journal wouldn’t publish in 2004

Behe: The authors imply that since no reason is known why, say, DNA should be synthesized discontinuously on the lagging strand, then no good reason in fact exists. Yet not long ago the same sort of fallacious argument from ignorance was made concerning “junk DNA.” Read More ›

ENCODE hints at MORE functional DNA

ENCODE Encyclopaedia: It has become apparent that, by virtually any metric, elements that govern transcription, chromatin organization, splicing, and other key aspects of genome control and function are densely encoded in many parts of the human genome sequence. Read More ›

ENCODE produces a genomic encyclopedia

Readers may also remember ENCODE from a flap a few years ago when Darwinian Dan Graur announced that the ENCODE team had to be wrong in saying that there wasn’t nearly as much junk DNA as had been thought. After a while, Graur just wasn’t doing politeness any more. Read More ›

Yes, genes from nowhere ARE an “evolutionary problem.”

Glad we are talking about this… No need to believe us (though we did warn you). What's this about “rampant” order in the genome? “Rampant” is a word we associate with disease; it’s not a word we commonly associate with “order.” On the other hand, an order that frustrates the outworkings of Darwinian evolution in favor of an orderly system that produces needed innovations must seem a lot like a disease to some. ;) Read More ›

“Phantom genes” turn out to be useful

It’s amazing how little junk there turns out to be in our systems, given that Darwinians boast that masses of junk supports their theory. But, of course, lack of masses of junk will likewise supports the Darwinians’ theory: Lack of junk proves how easy it is for complex, specified order to arise from disorder and something to arise from nothing. Read More ›

Nature Reviews Genetics article admits that junk DNA has been “prematurely dismissed”

The authors of the paper, of course, avoid pointing out that the presumption of uselessness was anchored in the comfortable fit between useless junk in the genome and the idea of unintelligent evolution. Never mind, Jonathan Wells’ The Myth of Junk DNA seems to be holding up well. Read More ›

At The Scientist: “Junk RNA” is top science news in 2019

A "completely unknown biology," says a researcher. “There really is no framework in biology as we know it today that would explain how RNA and glycans could ever be in the same place at the same time" Read More ›