Category: Evolution
Scientific Paper on Repetitive Elements Slams “Junk DNA”
In the past, one of the most common rebuttals to ID was, “If life was designed, then why is over 90 percent of the genome composed of junk DNA?”
Biologist Jonathan Wells Gives “Top Scientific Problems with Evolution”
Darwin anticipated “innumerable transitions” in the fossil record, but such a rainbow of transitional forms has never been found.
So, Does Ontogeny Recapitulate Phylogeny? Nope
When I was younger, my family lived next-door to a retired dentist named Max. Before entering dentistry, Max studied biology at UC Berkeley.
Oxford Journal: “The Days of ‘Junk DNA’ Are Over ”
Since project ENCODE provoked outrage among evolutionary biologists over a decade ago, there has been a concerted campaign to defend the notion of junk DNA.
Biologist Jonathan Wells Offers a Cure for Zombie Science
Wells encourages more than a modest dose of skepticism, and gives the example of the supposed “backward wiring of the vertebrate eye” as a case in point.