Tag: Nature Reviews Genetics
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.”
Lessons Not Learned from the Evangelical Debate over Adam and Eve
To his credit, William Lane Craig is among those evangelicals who have been willing to question arguments against Adam and Eve.
Pseudogenes Aren’t Nonfunctional Relics that Refute Intelligent Design
These claims represent a classic but false “junk DNA” argument against intelligent design.
Pseudogenes Are Going the Way of Darwin’s “Rudimentary Organs”
Long described as useless leftovers of evolution, pseudogenes are rising from the junk pile as functional entities.
Nature Reviews Genetics — Pseudogene Function Is “Prematurely Dismissed”
As Seth W. Cheetham and his co-authors put it, biology suffers from “demotivation into exploring pseudogene function by the a priori assumption that they are functionless.”