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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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I Grew Up with Intelligent Design Videos — Let’s Make More!

The scientific rigor and common sense in the CSC videos I watched as a child taught me to recognize media hype about evolution for what it is. 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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Here’s a Far from Exhaustive (Yet Still Exhausting) List of Papers Discovering Function for “Junk” DNA

The list contains over 800 papers which are divided into categories according to the type of genetic element for which they focus on finding function. Read More ›
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Synergies All the Way Down 

Examples of synergy cited by Peter Corning include multicellularity; sexual reproduction; emperor penguins huddling together for warmth.  Read More ›
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One of Science’s Biggest Mistakes

Prevailing scientific assumptions often die hard, especially when they fit so neatly into an evolutionary view of the development of life on Earth. Read More ›
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“Creation Myths” Misquotes and Misrepresents Junk DNA Video

Our video backs up what it says with clear quotes and references. We’ve provided more documentation here. Read More ›
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New Long Story Video Tackles “A Battle of Predictions: Junk DNA”

Something happened in 2012 that changed the entire debate in favor of the ID-based prediction that DNA would be largely functional. Read More ›
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Is Complexity an Argument Against Design?

Often these claims that “no designer would have done it that way” dissolve on closer inspection. Read More ›
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A Reckoning for Darwinism as “Junk DNA” Flops

As a product of care and intention, the genome ought to be comparable in a way with products of human genius, with every detail there for a reason. Read More ›

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