Another Icon of the "Junk DNA" Argument Bites the Dust

June 20, 2016 00:08:29
Another Icon of the "Junk DNA" Argument Bites the Dust
Intelligent Design the Future
Another Icon of the "Junk DNA" Argument Bites the Dust

Jun 20 2016 | 00:08:29

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID The Future, CSC Research Director Casey Luskin examines a recent paper in Genome Biology and Evolution which argues that the famous beta-globin pseudogene is functional. Why is this pseudogene famous? Well, it's been Exhibit A — literally, offered as evidence in a court case — for critics of intelligent design who argue that our genome is full of useless, functionless junk, and therefore can't be a product of design. In light of this new evidence for the functionality of the beta-globin pseudogene, it seems that this so-called Exhibit A, collapses.

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