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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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Denis Noble
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Denis Noble in Nature: “Time to Admit Genes Are Not the Blueprint For Life”

In his review, Noble comes right out and says that “Classic views of evolution should also be questioned.” Read More ›
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Ten “Anomalies” that Contradict the Junk DNA Paradigm

John Mattick uses the language of historian of science Thomas Kuhn to predict that we are witnessing a “paradigm shift” away from the concept of junk DNA. Read More ›
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COVID-19
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Paper Digest: What Mutation Accumulation Tells Us About Evolution

Though more than a decade old, this work caught my attention for its possible relevance to our current experiences with COVID-19. Read More ›
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Quiz: Is This a Prediction from the Tree of Life?

Conservation of function, but not genes, can be understood with an analogy to natural language. Consider two sentences. Read More ›
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Starship Enterprise: Fungal Transposons Boldly Go

Newly recognized large transposable elements in fungi dubbed Starships may not be selfish after all. Read More ›
woolly mammoth
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Even More Mammoth Devolution

The lesson from woolly mammoth studies, and many other ones, is that it is much faster and easier to break or blunt a gene than to improve or make a new one. Read More ›
chimp
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Chimp and Human Genomes: An Evolution Myth Unravels

Casey Luskin rebuts the oft-repeated claim that the human and chimp genomes are 98-99 percent similar as surely resulted from Darwinian common descent. Read More ›
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Will an Engineering Paradigm Supplant Darwinism?

Its summer of dominance after neo-Darwinism arose and conquered every field of biology led to an autumn of colorful just-so stories, and now a Narnian rule. Read More ›
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#10 Story of 2022: Twelve “Shocking” Discoveries for Evolution

Some discoveries might be surprising from an evolutionary perspective, but not necessarily from a perspective of intelligent design. Read More ›

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