Junk DNA: goodbye! (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, September 28, 2013, 14:12 (3863 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID (quoting): "These non-coding RNAs have been called the 'dark matter' of the genome because, just like the dark matter of the universe, they are massive in terms of coverage -- making up over 95 percent of the human genome. However, they are difficult to detect and no one knows exactly what they all are doing or why they are there," Pugh said. "Now at least we know that they are real, and not just 'noise' or 'junk.' Of course, the next step is to answer the question, 'what, in fact, do they do?'"-You have drawn our attention to this before, and I pointed out that if we still can't answer the question "what, in fact, do they do?" we can hardly say they are not junk. However, we also discussed the fact that even if it turns out DNA is 100% functional, it still won't prove anything either way about design. I think you yourself told us how Dawkins brazenly changed his argument from "shows you what a bad designer your God is" to "just what you would expect from natural selection" (I'm only paraphrasing). No credit to Dawkins, but the argument itself is fair enough.