Tag: Human Genome Project
Emergence by Design
The originators of the concept were two 19th-century British philosopher-scientists, John Stuart Mill and George Henry Lewes.
Beyond Genes: Biologists Seek Purpose in Unknown Substances, Processes
There’s more going on in DNA and cells than the old Central Dogma predicted. The time has come to look beyond genes.
Does Darwinian Theory Make the Same Predictions as Intelligent Design?
Richard Dawkins predicted that “a large fraction” of our genomes has no function, because, “The true ‘purpose’ of DNA is to survive, no more and no less.”
Francis Collins’s The Language of God 15 Years On
Collins refers to the “backward wiring” of the vertebrate eye, characterizing it as flawed from an engineering perspective.
Noncoding “Junk” DNA Is Important for Limb Formation
Some defenders of evolutionary orthodoxy would have us believe that we’ve only found a handful of non-coding DNA sequences that have function.