Tag: The Myth of Junk DNA

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 19, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, Casey Luskin, DNA, function, gene regulation, genome, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, microRNA, Nobel Committee, Nobel Prize, non-coding DNA, podcast, Richard Sternberg, The Myth of Junk DNA, William Dembski}

Another Case Where “Junk” Myth Impeded Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 19, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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For decades, evolutionary biologists considered non-coding regions of DNA as evolutionary junk. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C. elegans, David Coppedge, evolution, gene regulation, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, microRNA, miRNA, National Cancer Institute, Nobel Committee, Nobel Prize, Richard Sternberg, roundworm, The Conversation, The Myth of Junk DNA, William A. Dembski}

Happy New Year! No. 1 Story of 2024: Nobel Prize for Function of “Junk DNA”

_{Casey Luskin
January 1, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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That so-called genetic junk would turn out to be functional was a prediction of intelligent design going back to the 1990s. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 17, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C. elegans, David Coppedge, evolution, gene regulation, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, microRNA, miRNA, National Cancer Institute, Nobel Committee, Nobel Prize, Richard Sternberg, roundworm, The Conversation, The Myth of Junk DNA, William A. Dembski}

2024 Nobel Prize Awarded for the Discovery of Function for a Type of “Junk DNA”

_{Casey Luskin
December 17, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

That so-called genetic junk would turn out to be functional was a prediction of intelligent design going back to the 1990s. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 24, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brazil, Center for Science and Culture, Communism, Darwin's Finches, Discovery Institute, Eugenie Scott, evolution, Haeckel’s embryos, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, John West, Jonathan Wells, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), New York Times, peppered moths, Phillip E. Johnson, San Francisco, Science Uprising, science writers, scientists, textbooks, The Myth of Junk DNA, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, Yale University, Zombie Science (book)}

Farewell to Jonathan Wells, Iconoclastic Scientist

_{David Klinghoffer
September 24, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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His work resulted in forcing textbook publishers to correct their own work, a task they and their media enablers bitterly resented. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 5, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Science Education
Tagged
, biological origins, cell biology, DiscoveryU, education, empirical science, evidence, evolution, fear, free will, God, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, materialistic science, molecular biology, orthodoxy, skepticism, spirit, The Design of Life, The Myth of Junk DNA, totalitarian science, UC Berkeley, Yale University}

New Course on Evolution Challenges Group-Think with Scientific Skepticism

_{David Klinghoffer
May 5, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Science Education

2}

Consider spending the time — 40 lessons with accompanying quizzes to check your progress — to weigh the evidence for yourself. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 4, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, cell biology, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, complexity, Discovery Institute, DiscoveryU, education, evolution, homeschool students, Icons of Evolution, ideology, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, knowledge, Latin, life, materialism, molecular biology, natural selection, nature, public education, The Design of Life, The Myth of Junk DNA, Tree of Life, UC Berkeley, universe, Yale University}

New DiscoveryU Course: Jonathan Wells Takes an Objective Look at the Evidence for Evolution

_{David Klinghoffer
May 4, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

2}

The notion that knowledge must reject mind as a casual factor in origins studies is a materialist presumption — not science. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
March 15, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chromatin, embryogenesis, embryos, junk DNA, mice, Nature Genetics, ontogeny, The Myth of Junk DNA, transcription, transcriptome}

More Jobs for “Junk” DNA

_{Paul Nelson
March 15, 2023

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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It turns out the mouse endogenous retrovirus L (MERVL) is essential for embryogenesis, according to a recently published article. Read More ›

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Date
April 13, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, appendix, Charles Darwin, coccyx, Darwin-skeptics, diarrhea, disabilities, evolution, Foresight (book), Francis Collins, Icons of Evolution, Immune System, infection, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, John West, Jonathan Wells, Kenneth Miller, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Egnor, Nature Reviews Genetics, pseudogenes, The Biology of the Second Reich, The Myth of Junk DNA, vestigial structures, Wikipedia, Zombie Science (book)}

Pseudogenes Are Going the Way of Darwin’s “Rudimentary Organs”

_{Science & Culture
April 13, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Long described as useless leftovers of evolution, pseudogenes are rising from the junk pile as functional entities. Read More ›

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Date
December 10, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, binding sites, BioEssays, DNA, ENCODE, evolution, genome, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, multicellular organisms, non-coding DNA, PNAS, The Myth of Junk DNA, transcription factors, transposable elements}

Jonathan Wells Was Right: Non-coding DNA Continues to Show Function

_{Science & Culture
December 10, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Design predictions rise as evolutionary assumptions fall. The junk DNA myth is, for all practical purposes, falsified. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 24, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, cells, Creative Evolution, cytoplasm, function, intelligent design, introns, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, mRNA, Nature (journal), Oxford University Press, predictions, proteins, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, splicing, The Myth of Junk DNA, W. Ford Doolittle}

As Predicted by Intelligent Design, “Junk” Introns Are Actually Functional

_{Casey Luskin
January 24, 2019

Intelligent Design

6}

ID proponents have long predicted that functions would be uncovered for such non-coding DNA. Read More ›