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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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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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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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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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Casey Luskin on Junk DNA’s “Kuhnian Paradigm Shift”

Intelligent design theorists have long argued against the idea that non-protein coding DNA is useless evolutionary junk. Read More ›
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Roundup of Functions for “Junk DNA” Supports the New RNA Gene Paradigm

The junk DNA paradigm may have caused us to miss the precise DNA that helps makes a species unique.  Read More ›
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The New Post-Junk-DNA Paradigm of Molecular Biology: RNA Genes

RNA genes have many functions but a large proportion entail gene regulation-related functions that fall within the category of epigenetics. 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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Newly Published Paper in BioEssays Recognizes Kuhnian “Paradigm Shift” Against Junk DNA

A new theory “emerges first in the mind of one or a few individuals” but then it spreads because the field faces “crisis-provoking problems.” Read More ›
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Evolutionist Claims ChatGPT “Lies About Junk DNA”

A null hypothesis, such as expecting the absence of function in non-coding DNA, reveals a presupposition that biases one’s interpretation of the evidence.  Read More ›

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