“Junk DNA” Suffers a Blow as Nature Papers Find “Global Function” for Introns in Budding Yeast
All of this calls to mind a comment from biologist John Mattick, a critic of the junk DNA paradigm.
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Atheist Matt Dillahunty Goes After Intelligent Design — and Stumbles
Dillahunty’s argumentation may be appealing to those who are unacquainted with ID or the classical arguments for the existence of God — which I suspect comprises the majority of his Atheist Experience audience. But to any fair-minded individual, Dillahunty’s arguments reveal that he has not interacted in any meaningful fashion with the primary literature by advocates of ID or theism.
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Biologist John Mattick on Junk DNA, ENCODE, and Intelligent Design
Mattick himself is no proponent of intelligent design. But his willingness to state upfront that a common argument against ID has been “threatened in the face of growing functional indices of noncoding regions of the genome” deserves commendation.
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