Junk DNA goodbye!: non-coding lncRNA & regeneration (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, August 24, 2018, 11:50 (2284 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Note the bold. 'Junk DNA' is a point of view proposed and promoted by ardent Darwinists to protect the very weak theory now that DNA is becoming m ore understood. The new data base is a response to the previously improper view of DNA. Other than common descent the whole theory is dead and Tony thinks that doesn't exist.

dhw: As I keep saying, the gradual disappearance of the “junk” theory can be explained by “ardent Darwinists” as natural selection at work – only what is useful survives. For obvious reasons Junk DNA was never part of Darwin’s theory! At least you still believe in common descent, so perhaps you could explain to Tony why you think he’s wrong.

DAVID: You again are blinded by Darwin. The Darwin scientists have used junk DNA to justify Darwin theory by saying the 'useless junk DNA' shows evolution evolved by chance and the junk is left over evidence of chance attempts at evolution that did not work out. I've explained this before. Dan Graur, an ardent Darwinist professor, has said if junk does not exist Darwin is dead. I can probably find the quote for you, as I remember publishing it here.

You are again blinded by your hatred of Darwin. If these “ardent Darwinists” have not latched on to the answer that non-junk can be explained as natural selection at work – i.e. what is useful survives – then more fool them. Why don’t you consider this explanation instead of banging your anti-Darwin drum?

Under "pointy end eggs"):

QUOTE: “In general, an egg's conicality was the most reliable predictor of its likelihood of staying put on inclined surfaces," Hauber says. "This finding provides experimental support for natural selection shaping the unique form of murre eggs amongst all bird eggs.”

DAVID: These eggs cannot have been developed by chance attempts if the birds were to survive. Only design fits.

When you say only design fits, what exactly do you mean? That your God preprogrammed pointed murre eggs 3.8 billion years ago, or that he saw murre eggs falling off the cliff, and in order to preserve the balance of nature so that life could go on until he produced the brain of Homo sapiens, stepped in to change round to pointy? How about Hauber’s suggestion that natural selection fits: round eggs didn’t survive, and pointy eggs did?