Junk DNA: goodbye! (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, September 30, 2013, 14:29 (4073 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: What you are not recognizing in how important atheists like Larry Moran are trying to preserve the concept of junk. It is considered very vital to their concept of the edvolutionary theory. They are refusing to accept the sort of material I am presenting as valid.-It's far too early even for you to say whether DNA is 100% functional or not, so at this stage some atheists can carry on junking, while others like Dawkins have already adjusted their argument to cope with non-junk. Creationists refused at first to accept evolution (and many still do), since separate creation was "considered very vital" to their concept of the God theory, but eventually even the Catholic Church officially accepted theistic evolution. What you are not recognizing is that just as evolution did not knock out theism, functional DNA will not knock out atheism. As I said before, people can always find an explanation to fit in with their beliefs (and disbeliefs).