Are you so uninformed that you think life scientists continue to hold the “junk DNA” hypothesis as viable?
No, but I think they are still holding their million dollar Nobel Prize!...............8^)
“Are you so uninformed that you think life scientists continue to hold the “junk DNA” hypothesis as viable?”
There was quite a high-handed article criticizing ENCODE which stated:
We urge biologists not be afraid of junk DNA. The only people that should be afraid are those claiming that natural processes are insufficient to explain life and that evolutionary theory should be supplemented or supplanted by an intelligent designer (Dembski 1998; Wells 2004). ENCODE’s take-home message that everything has a function implies purpose, and purpose is the only thing that evolution cannot provide. Needless to say, in light of our investigation of the ENCODE publication, it is safe to state that the news concerning the death of “junk DNA” has been greatly exaggerated.
From
http://gbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/3/578.full
It was quite an angry defense of junk DNA titled:
On the Immortality of Television Sets: “Function” in the Human Genome According to the Evolution-Free Gospel of ENCODE
There is a surprisingly strident number of scientists who have been quite negative toward the ENCODE project, which is interesting to see and rather surprising.
When it comes to bombastic evolutionists,
the repentance of arrogance past
is few and far between.