[Dark Knight]

I guess DNA is more complex than biologists thought...er some biologists.

DK

Sorry this is from last year though.

[James C. Bennett]

Nipples on males, on the other hand...

:^)

[ClearCase_guy]

If evolution consists of random genetic drift through purposeless mutation, with some combinations of genes resulting in death, some in benefits, and some being neutral enough to carry forward until further genetic drift determines fatality or benefit, then I think it is easy to look a a collection of useless DNA and say "It just happened, it's not bad enough to kill us, and now it's just there like a pile of junk."

But if it's not junk?

I think it makes it much harder to have faith that evolution consists of random genetic drift through purposeless mutation. Perhaps there is a design. Which to say: Perhaps there is a Designer.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Liberal academics always think that anything that they don’t know the use for is “junk,” because anything they don’t know isn’t worth knowing.

[catnipman]

Ya just gotta love how “nature” codes the instructions for life. I wonder if I can get “nature” to code me a new operating system to take the place of Windows. I don’t see why not; after all, a PC operating system is only about a a thousand trillion times simpler than a Homo Sapiens.

Actually, I’m aiming to make a Panasonic CF-53 laptop computer with Windows 7 compatible operating system. I’ve filled a large beaker full of the elemental powders from which the laptop and operating system are formed, put some sea water in, and then bombarded the laptop soup in the beaker with simulated lightening. I expect that a digital chip will spontaneously form eventually and then will evolve into the PC after being bombarded by cosmic rays for some additional period of time.

I’m not too sure how long it will take to get my laptop that way, but am quite optimistic. I figure if organic life can spontaneously form in a similar fashion, a mere PC will take much less time.

[indthkr]

"Long stretches of DNA previously dismissed as 'junk'"

Nature usually doesn't have time for "junk" - that would consume energy, which generally cannot be wasted on something that doesn't serve a purpose.

[editor-surveyor]

If the discovery of DNA wasn’t enough to make the evolutionists go away, this has to at some point when full understanding of the check-sum protections in the so-called junk comes to light.