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Merry Christmas! #8 Story of 2021: An ID Prediction for CRISPR Gene Editing

From an design perspective, there is no compelling reason to think that CRISPR gene editing will constitute an enhancement tool for building superior humans. Read More ›
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The Tragedy of Francis Collins’s Model for Science-Faith Integration 

The depiction of Francis Collins as someone who has developed a good model for integrating faith and science is in many respects a tragic myth. Read More ›
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Recalling Francis Collins’s The Language of God

President Bill Clinton announced, in a speech Collins helped to write, “we are learning the language in which God created life.” Read More ›
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Oxford Journal: “The Days of ‘Junk DNA’ Are Over ”

Since project ENCODE provoked outrage among evolutionary biologists over a decade ago, there has been a concerted campaign to defend the notion of junk DNA. Read More ›
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Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed

Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature. Read More ›
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An ID Prediction for CRISPR Gene Editing

From an design perspective, there is no compelling reason to think that CRISPR gene editing will constitute an enhancement tool for building superior humans. Read More ›
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Next Phase of ENCODE Finds MORE Functional Information in Genome “Junk”

The ENCODE project, now in its 17th year, ended its third phase with a new record of annotated elements in human and mouse genomes. Phase 4 is coming. Read More ›
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Paper Shows that “Mutational Load” Arguments Don’t Refute ENCODE

Perhaps one of ENCODE’s staunchest critics has been Dan Graur, a molecular evolutionary biologist at the University of Houston. Read More ›
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Surprises in Cell Codes Reveal Information Goes Far Beyond DNA

Information is the stuff of life. Not limited to DNA, information is found in most biomolecules in living cells. Read More ›
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Jonathan Wells Was Right: Non-coding DNA Continues to Show Function

Design predictions rise as evolutionary assumptions fall. The junk DNA myth is, for all practical purposes, falsified. Read More ›

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