Tag: pseudogenes
Human-Chimp Similarity: What Is It and What Does It Mean?
For years we’ve been told that human and chimp DNA is some 99 percent identical. Is that true?
Francis Collins’s Pseudogenes: An Icon of Evolution Now in Crisis
Casey Luskin discusses how theistic Darwinists Francis Collins and Karl Giberson rely on the argument that pseudogenes are junk.
Pseudogenes Aren’t Nonfunctional Relics that Refute Intelligent Design
These claims represent a classic but false “junk DNA” argument against intelligent design.
Dawkins: A “Perfect Hierarchy” in the Tree of Life?
The “hierarchy” that Dawkins is referring to in the video is the tree of life that evolutionary biologists can generate.
Another “Junk DNA” Icon Bites the Dust
Casey Luskin examines a paper which argues that the famous beta-globin pseudogene is functional. Why is this pseudogene famous?