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Predictions, predictions: ID predicts overlapping codes, Darwinism predicts “junk DNA”

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Overlapping genes, or “nested coding,” was anticipated by microbiologist Siegfried Scherer, as Meyer points out. Why? Because human coders layer codes on top of codes, for various reasons including improved storage. Therefore a designing agent, operating behind the veil of biology, would likely do so as well. And so it is.

David Klinghoffer, “Meyer on “Nested Coding”: Another Successful Design Prediction” at Evolution News and Science Today

And, as Klinghoffer reminds us, the Darwinists predicted lots of “junk DNA,” mindless and meaningless evolution’s scrap heap.

Hat tip: Philip Cunningham