Francis Collins’s Pseudogenes: An Icon of Evolution Now in Crisis

Episode 1514 October 08, 2021 00:08:50
Francis Collins’s Pseudogenes: An Icon of Evolution Now in Crisis
Intelligent Design the Future
Francis Collins’s Pseudogenes: An Icon of Evolution Now in Crisis

Oct 08 2021 | 00:08:50

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Show Notes

On this classic ID the Future, Casey Luskin discusses how theistic Darwinists Francis Collins and Karl Giberson rely on the argument that pseudogenes are junk, “broken DNA.” The pseudogene is their centerpiece evidence for common descent and macroevolution in their book The Language of Science and Faith. This leaves them hard-pressed as researchers discover more and more functions for non-coding DNA, including pseudogenes.

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