Genome complexity: pseudogenes (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, August 21, 2013, 16:38 (3893 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw:If junk DNA is not junk, how does that prove evolution is a failed paradigm? The evolutionist can simply argue that natural selection has got rid of all the DNA that WAS junk. And who says that the Theory of Evolution runs contrary to a complex genetic code programmed by a Creator? -The argument is more complex than that. Junk has been used to say that natural selection discarded stuff throughout purposeless chance evoluton. The current findings remove much of the junk label and demonstrate that DNA must be viewed in an 3-D perspective, with the questionable material being found to have modifying fuctions or acting as 3-D spacers to bring other modifiers close to the genes they are acting upon. The latter implies purposeful junk and fits the concept of theistic evolution.