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With One Short Rule, Philip Ball Explains Why “Junk DNA” May Be a Placeholder for Ignorance

Here is Ball’s proposed rule for molecular biologists: “stop assuming,” he writes, “we know which parts of DNA matter and which don’t.” Read More ›
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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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Darwinists Devolve

One sign of a robust scientific theory is the quality of its most prominent proponents. But serious advocates of Darwinism have become an endangered species. Read More ›
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In the Scientific Enterprise, the Wildness of Aslan Counsels Humility 

Science has made many of its grandest leaps in the face of a mainstream of scientists stubbornly defending a dominant but misguided paradigm. 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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It’s Intelligent Design, Not Darwinism, that Drives Scientific Progress

Here is a list showing various fields where intelligent design is helping science to generate knowledge. Read More ›
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The Interactome Multiplies Specified Complexity

No longer think of proteins as isolated parts in a cell. Think of them as friends networking and participating together in a community. 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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