{"id":38575,"date":"2021-10-11T14:26:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T19:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=38575"},"modified":"2021-10-11T14:26:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T19:26:37","slug":"junk-dna-refuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/junk-dna-refuted\/","title":{"rendered":"“Junk DNA” Refuted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

Source: <\/strong>“Oxford Journal: ‘The Days of ‘Junk DNA’ Are Over’<\/a> ,” Evolution News and Science Today, 6 October 2021.<\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0<\/strong>Casey McGarth, “‘Junk DNA’ No More: Repetitive Elements as Vital Sources of Flatworm Variation<\/a>,” Genome Biology & Evolution<\/em>, Oxford University Press, October 2021.<\/p>\n

Genome Biology & Evolution<\/em>, published by Oxford University Press, stated in an article “The days of junk DNA are over.”<\/p>\n

“When we studied genetics at university in the 1980s, the common doctrine was that the non-protein coding parts of eukaryotic genomes consisted of interspersed, ‘useless’ sequences, often organized in repetitive elements like satellite DNA,” note Grunau and Grevelding. Since then, however, the common understanding of such sequences has fundamentally changed, revealing a plethora of regulatory sequences, noncoding RNAs, and sequences that play a role in chromosomal and nuclear structure.” [McGarth, quoting Christoph Grunau and Christoph Grevelding].<\/p>\n

“Since project ENCODE provoked outrage among evolutionary biologists such as Dan Graur over a decade ago, there has been a concerted campaign to defend the notion of junk DNA, often explicitly in the context of anti-intelligent design sentiments. Graur, at the University of Houston, famously argued in 2013, in a major speech in Chicago to the SMBE, that “if ENCODE is right, then evolution is wrong.” ” [Evolution News].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: “Oxford Journal: ‘The Days of ‘Junk DNA’ Are Over’ ,” Evolution News and Science Today, 6 October 2021. Source:\u00a0Casey McGarth, “‘Junk DNA’ No More: Repetitive Elements as Vital Sources of Flatworm Variation,” Genome Biology & Evolution, Oxford University Press, October 2021. Genome Biology & Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, stated in an article…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-38575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issues","tag-evolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18035,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/nested-coding-in-dna-is-evidence-of-design\/","url_meta":{"origin":38575,"position":0},"title":"Nested Coding in DNA is Evidence of Design","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 8, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Source:\u00a0\"BioEssays Editor: \u201c\u2018Junk\u2019 DNA\u2026 Full of Information!\u201d Including Genome-Sized \u201cGenomic Code\u201d,\" Evolution News & Science Today, 18 November 2019. \"The paper finds that our DNA contains overlapping layered \u201c\u2019dual-function\u2019 pieces of information,\u201d including a \u201cgenomic code\u201d that spans virtually the entire genome in order to \u201cdefin[e] the shape and compaction\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Issues"","block_context":{"text":"Issues","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/issues\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":40339,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/more-purposes-found-for-so-called-junk-dna\/","url_meta":{"origin":38575,"position":1},"title":"More Purposes Found for So-Called Junk DNA","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 4, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Source: \"Caltech Finds Amazing Role for Noncoding DNA,\" Evolutionary News, 3 December 2021. \"Scientists at Caltech may have sounded the final death knell for the \"junk DNA\" myth.\" For years evolutionists have pointed to sections of the DNA and RNA strands that are not directly involved in the encoding of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Issues"","block_context":{"text":"Issues","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/issues\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":33898,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/mitochondrial-dna-differences-indicate-a-6000-year-old-human-race\/","url_meta":{"origin":38575,"position":2},"title":"Mitochondrial DNA Differences Indicate a 6,000 Year Old Human Race","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 3, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Source: Nathaniel T. 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