Genome complexity: pseudogenes (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, August 24, 2013, 15:56 (4110 days ago) @ dhw

dhw:The report on the interview also tells us what Dawkins said before his volte face: "It stretches even their [Creationists'] creative ingenuity to make a convincing reason why an intelligent designer should have created a pseudogene -- a gene that does absolutely nothing and gives every appearance of being a superannuated version of a gene that used to do something -- unless he was deliberately setting out to fool us." That's the previous atheist argument I was referring to in my post.-The problem with this Dawkins quote,and it makes it obvious Dawkins is not keeping up with the reseach, pseudogenes are now beingfound to have functional abilities. An atheist argument with no basis. And that has been my point. I fully accept your view that minds set in cement will not change, but if a clear thinker follows what is happening, junk disappearing is removing part of the atheists present theory about chance controlling DNA development.
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> dhw: I gather that ENCODE'S findings are still in dispute, but obviously I'm in no position to take sides. ..... To which I would add, none of us know which theory is correct.-The debate as I follow Shapiro and Moran favors Shapiro. The findings are making most of DNA more and more functional, and much more complex. Complexity is anti-chance!