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Is junk DNA a dead idea? According to creationist Jeff Tomkins, it is. In this video, I react to an interview that Tomkins gave to ICR on the topic of junk DNA in hopes of clarifying this important concept.
Original video: youtube.com/watch?v=I0dPntyyCpU&t=23s
#science #evolution #creationism
Further reading:
Graur, D. et al. (2013) On the Immortality of Television Sets: “Function” in the Human Genome According to the Evolution-Free Gospel of ENCODE. academic.oup.com/gbe/article/5/3/578/583411.
Palazzo A. & Kejiou N. (2022) Non-Darwinian Molecular Biology. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8888898/.
Doolittle, W. Ford (2013) Is junk DNA bunk? A critique of ENCODE. pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1221376110.
Is junk DNA a dead idea? According to creationist Jeff Tomkins, it is. In this video, I react to an interview that Tomkins gave to ICR on the topic of junk DNA in hopes of clarifying this important concept.
Original video: youtube.com/watch?v=I0dPntyyCpU&t=23s
#science #evolution #creationism
Further reading:
Graur, D. et al. (2013) On the Immortality of Television Sets: “Function” in the Human Genome According to the Evolution-Free Gospel of ENCODE. academic.oup.com/gbe/article/5/3/578/583411.
Palazzo A. & Kejiou N. (2022) Non-Darwinian Molecular Biology. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8888898/.
Doolittle, W. Ford (2013) Is junk DNA bunk? A critique of ENCODE. pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1221376110.
