Quanta – Uncommon Descent

The complex truth about junk DNA

At Quanta: “Genomes hold immense quantities of noncoding DNA. Some of it is essential for life, some seems useless, and some has its own agenda.”

asauber I think people are suffering from the game/pretense of expectations or preconceptions being met/not met. Upon detached examination (see Michael... – Denton’s prior fitness argument: Everything seems...
jerry But it cannot be called a scientific endeavour until it starts researching the designer and the mechanisms used to realize... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Viola Lee Egner writes, " Perhaps the most common justification that abortion proponents give for supporting abortion is that the human embryo... – At Mind Matters News: Must we...
JVL ET: As I said and you have proven, Stonehenge stands alone. Those other two are not like Stonehenge. Those other... – L&FP, 55: Defining/Clarifying Intelligent Design as...
jerry The existence or not of {forbidden term} has no impact on the validity of either evolution or ID. I’ve been... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
kairosfocus https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/lfp-55-defining-clarifying-intelligent-design-as-inference-as-theory-as-a-movement/ – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Silver Asiatic Aristotle, Confucius, Siddhartha Gautama and the author of Ecclesiastes all addressed that within the same time frame 550-350 BC. – At Mind Matters News: Must we...
JHolo Jerry@112, again, I find myself agreeing with you. The existence or not of junk DNA has no impact on the... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
jerry the late George V. Coyne, a Jesuit priest Maybe it’s Jesuits that are the problem. After all you seem screwed... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
jerry Can we retire the term “junk DNA” since it essentially is a meaningless term. Why it is brought up I... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
chuckdarwin Relatd/49 Jerry Coyne is a secular Jew and emeritus professor of biology at UChicago--why would he be a spokesperson for... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET Bob O'H: I’m sorry, is this the ID junk concept, or the actual one used by biologists, and referenced almost... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET JHolo: But it cannot be called a scientific endeavour until it starts researching the designer and the mechanisms used to... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
JHolo Jerry: People are getting hung up on ID being science. ID adds to science definitely. But it is not science.... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Bob O'H Sandy @ 101 - Have you searched newer articles than 2004 in the same Nature journal? I guess not because... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET Technology sometimes uses redundant systems. The extra systems can be removed without affecting the function. Those removed systems were not... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
jerry People are getting hung up on ID being science. ID adds to science definitely. But it is not science. ID... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET Fred Hickson: My purpose (heh) is not to defend evolutionary theory and convince you and others here that it is... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET Again, anyone claiming that the majority of any genome is junk has to tell us how blind and mindless processes... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET Fred Hickson: A penguin flipper’s ancestry is an adaptation to flight. Propaganda isn't science. It's beyond pathetic when Fred uses... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Sandy @Fred Hickson: have you even read the article linked by BobO'Hara? "Knowles cautions that the study doesn't prove that non-coding... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...