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Postcard from Warsaw: Debating Teleology in Science

An English version of the debate, with Professor Sady's words translated into English, is now available on YouTube. Read More ›
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Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize

A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford's Richard Dawkins and MIT's Rosalind Picard. Read More ›
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Documentation for Dr. Dan

We hope Rutgers biologist Dan Stern Cardinale finds these citations of interest. Read More ›
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Dr. Dan Has a Taste for Debate

From what I’ve been told, there are many examples of “non-conserved” regions having sequence-independent functions. Read More ›
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Casey Luskin Reflects on His Recent Junk DNA Debate

For decades we were told that non-coding regions of our DNA are littered with evolutionary junk. Read More ›
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Did Dr. Dan Make Us Change Our Position on Junk DNA?

This claim is totally false and it perhaps reflects Dr. Dan’s wish to find a positive spin on the substance of what happened during the debate. Read More ›
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Reflections on Casey Luskin’s Debate with “Dr. Dan”

I commend Dr. Dan for being an amicable dialogue partner and for his good faith attempt to engage substantively with the relevant scientific issues. Read More ›
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From the “Junk DNA” Files: Can “Degraded” LINE Elements Still Be Functional?

On May 2, Casey Luskin had an online debate with Professor Daniel Stern Cardinale, an evolutionary biologist at Rutgers University. Read More ›
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Casey Luskin Versus Dan Stern Cardinale: A Wonderful Debate About “Junk DNA”

Everyone did a great job, and the conversation was science-packed from beginning to end. Not one word of invective, and indeed highly cordial. Read More ›
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“Junk DNA” from Three Perspectives: Some Key Quotes

Many of these quotes are from mainstream scientific papers, books, or book chapters of a technical nature. Read More ›

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