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Doug Axe
Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
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Carl Linnaeus
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
Paul Nelson at Car Museum
Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Daniel Witt
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Jonathan Witt

Topic

junk DNA

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Casey Luskin
Date
August 9, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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How “Junk” DNA Got Its Function: Evolutionary Tales Fail to Convince

Casey Luskin
August 9, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Earlier this year there was a flurry of stories about how “junk DNA” may explain why humans don’t have tails. Read More ›
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Casey Luskin
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August 7, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Defending Our Literature Survey on Function for Junk DNA

Casey Luskin
August 7, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Our list only scratches the surface of the literature, and you can’t negate the existence of that body of literature through a few complaints. Read More ›
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Photo: Cancer cells, by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash.
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Casey Luskin
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August 5, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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Disease-Associated “Junk” DNA Is Evidence of Function

Casey Luskin
August 5, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine
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When you mess with the “junk,” the result is problems. That doesn’t sound like junk DNA to me. Read More ›
Dan Stern Cardinale
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David Klinghoffer
Date
June 21, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Dr. Dan Has a Taste for Debate

David Klinghoffer
June 21, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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From what I’ve been told, there are many examples of “non-conserved” regions having sequence-independent functions. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
Date
June 18, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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DNA Repair and the Origin of Life: Here’s the Problem

David Klinghoffer
June 18, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Perhaps out there, watching along with you, is another Professor Dan Stern Cardinale who is imagining how easy it’s going to be to take this one apart. Read More ›
DNA
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
June 16, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
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Casey Luskin Reflects on His Recent Junk DNA Debate

Andrew McDiarmid
June 16, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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For decades we were told that non-coding regions of our DNA are littered with evolutionary junk. Read More ›
DNA
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
June 1, 2024
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How the Myth of Junk DNA Hindered Science

Andrew McDiarmid
June 1, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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For decades, we’ve been told that only a tiny percentage of DNA is functional and that the vast majority is useless junk. Read More ›
DNA
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Jonathan McLatchie
Date
May 24, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Did Dr. Dan Make Us Change Our Position on Junk DNA?

Jonathan McLatchie
May 24, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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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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Jonathan McLatchie
Date
May 16, 2024
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Reflections on Casey Luskin’s Debate with “Dr. Dan”

Jonathan McLatchie
May 16, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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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 ›
DNA
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Jonathan McLatchie
Date
May 13, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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From the “Junk DNA” Files: Can “Degraded” LINE Elements Still Be Functional?

Jonathan McLatchie, Richard Sternberg, and Casey Luskin
May 13, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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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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