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Thomas-Cech
Photo: Thomas Cech, by Douglas A. Lockard / Science History Institute, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Nobelist Thomas Cech on “Junk RNA” 

We can add this prominent biochemist to the ever-growing list of scientists who reject the “junk DNA” paradigm. Or, more pertinently, the junk RNA paradigm. Read More ›
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New “Long Story” Short: “ERVs, Pseudogenes, & Onions”

Intelligent design is a “science stopper”? It “makes people stupid”? These are among the claims of some smart scientists who ought to know better. Read More ›
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Photo: Omega Centauri, X-ray:, by NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA; IR:NASA/JPL/Caltech; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N.

Dark Matter and Intelligent Design: A Prediction

Let’s look at some of the remarkable features of dark matter, already discovered by observations in astronomy and cosmology. Read More ›
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“Doesn’t the Fossil Record Prove Darwinian Theory?”

You’ve heard that challenge a million times. But as paleontologist Günter Bechly explains, the opposite is true. Read More ›
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Hey, Please Ask Dawkins About His “Junk DNA” Goof

Our friend Brian Keating, a cosmologist at UC San Diego, does wonderful interviews. A particularly fun recent one was with Richard Dawkins. Read More ›
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The Junk Shop of Andreas Wagner

The fundamental dilemma is this: whenever you co-opt any part from an old system and put it in a new system, there are two possibilities. Read More ›
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Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, in the Cambridge University Library, by LegesRomanorum via Wikimedia Commons.

Science Versus the Oldest Anti-Intelligent-Design Argument 

Translation: Everything that exists was made not by intelligent design, but rather by the random arrangement and rearrangement of atoms. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Discontinuities in the Fossil Record — A Problem for Neo-Darwinism

The fossil record generally documents a discontinuous history of life with sudden appearances of new body plans and new forms of life in saltational events. 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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A Reckoning for Darwinism as “Junk DNA” Flops

As a product of care and intention, the genome ought to be comparable in a way with products of human genius, with every detail there for a reason. Read More ›

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