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Please, Don't Steal My Junk!

Jun 13, 2007

More and more, geneticists are discovering that "junk" DNA might not be junk at all, that noncoding regions do, to some extent at least, serve important biological functions. Recently, according to a Wired online magazine article, intelligent design proponents are using this fact to make a case for God having had a hand in building life. Isn't it nice to know that your work decoding the functional genome is giving the intelligent design camp some good ammunition?

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