Dawkins the New Cultural ChristianRichard Dawkins has an endearing habit of rewriting history. For almost four decades, from the mid 1970s onward, he wrote of the human genome as mainly junk. It suited his Darwinism to do so, underscoring how evolution cobbles living forms together opportunistically, and that waste and inefficiencies in the genome are simply part of the messy process that is Darwinian evolution, focused as it is on natural selection acting on random variations. And then in the early 2010s the results of the ENCODE project were announced, showing that hardly any human DNA, and perhaps none of...