“We don’t know the importance of this discovery yet because we don’t know why these single loci are preserved”
“These apparently functional single nucleotides almost certainly would have been overlooked, possibly forever, but for the assumption of common descent”
Actually it is the Creationist’s belief that everything that is there, must be there for a good reason. Even if we don’t know why now, as we learn more we will continue to see the genius of the Creator and his divine purpose. It is the Christian view that God created an ordered universe that led to the discovery of most of our laws of science which define the order that Christians knew to be there even before they discovered it. Those who believe that the Universe and the contents thereof is the result of a random cosmic accident and that we are most surely filled with the vestiges of things long since rendered irrelevant by our evolution have time and again dismissed things as vestigial only to later on be shown that they indeed had current biological purpose and function.
I applaud the fact that this time around you have the foresight to know that what looks like a blank spot to you now will soon enough be shown to have a purpose. It shows that you have learned through science that there is purpose behind our design and the blank spots will never just turn out to be some random purposeless vestige of a prior species.
The fact that you ask “why” and not just how, belies that you suspect that there is more at work than just random chance and selection. If random chance and selection is the answer to all “why” questions you should stop using the word and only ask how. If there is no Creator, there is no purpose, no reason, no “why”, only “how”(by accident of course).
Honestly, If this whole universe were the result of some Godless cosmic accident and governed by chance and the path of least resistance, could there be any useful purpose for you to be struggling to change my mind?
If however you are in denial of your Creator, I can see how you would want to make a strong rebuttal when I point out you were created for a purpose and and with that comes responsibility to the Creator you defy.
Wow! You make my point beautifully, and frankly a bit stronger than I would have put it myself.
So then you concede, if ALL DNA loci must be considered functional, that it would be absolutely impossible for a creationist to consistently do what evolutionists do routinely, and to great benefit as to the advancement of science: indentify likely loci, sequences and regions of the DNA for investigation even BEFORE knowing their particular function.