Biology

Functional DNA amid Piles of Junk

April 1, 2008

Sometimes my daughters' bedrooms are unbelievably messy. Junk everywhere. It often looks like a clothes bomb detonated. I have no idea how they can...

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Junk DNA: A Problem for the Evolutionary Paradigm?

December 5, 2007

New Discoveries Raise Questions about Molecular Evolution One of the most significant challenges to the Christian faith comes from the problem of evil. If God...

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Junk DNA Regulates Gene Expression

September 12, 2007

Junk DNA Plays an Important Role in Development My wife enjoys looking for antiques (and, to my horror, buying them.) For Amy, antiques are priceless...

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

More on the Nucleoskeletal Hypothesis

July 12, 2007

Cell biologists believe that in addition to housing genetic information, DNA plays a skeletal role in the nucleus; the more DNA in the nucleus,...

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Dinosaur Genome Size Estimates: Lagerstatten of Design

July 5, 2007

An exceptional paper published a few months ago in Nature provides the first-ever estimates of genome sizes for dinosaurs (even though there is no...

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by Anjeanette Roberts Read

Opossum Genome Leaves Evolution’s Best Argument Dead in the Road

June 14, 2007

In the May 10th issue of Nature an international team of scientists reported a high-quality draft of the genome of the grey short-tailed opossum.

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Are Pseudogenes Junk?

May 31, 2007

Evolutionary biologists regard “junk” DNA as one of the most potent pieces of evidence for biological evolution. Often identical (or nearly identical) segments of...

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Is Junk DNA Evidence for Biological Evolution?

May 3, 2007

Both Christians and skeptics alike expect superior designs to exist throughout nature if, indeed, the all-powerful, all-knowing Creator described in the Bible made the...

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by Hugh Ross Read

Junk DNA Has Function

August 10, 2005

"Junk" (or noncoding) DNA has become an icon of evolution. Evolutionary biologists maintain that because junk DNA is an imperfection, it provides incontrovertible evidence...

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Natural Evil or Moral Evil

September 30, 2003

Why does God allow bad things to happen? How can He if He is good and all-powerful? These questions identify the “problem of evil”...

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by Joseph Bergeron Read

Yet Another Use for “Junk” DNA

July 1, 2000

A team of scientists from Case Western Reserve (CWRU) School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, has developed convincing circumstantial evidence for yet another function...

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Yet Another Use for “Junk” DNA

July 1, 2000

A team of scientists from Case Western Reserve (CWRU) School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, has developed convincing circumstantial evidence for yet another function...

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read