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Once Upon a Time
There Was Darwinism

between genes and is called an intron. Another
kind, called repetitive DNA, is formed by repeated nu-
cleotide sequences extending the length of the chain. If the nu-

cleotides on non-coding DNA were arranged in a way similar to
the complex series in a gene, instead of in a repetitive series, they
would be called a pseudogene.
Evolutionists have lumped these non-protein-coding segments
of DNA under the general heading of "junk DNA" and asserted that
they are unnecessary leftovers in the so-called process of evolution.
However, this endeavor has clearly been illogical: Just because these

DNA segments do not code for proteins does not imply that they
have no function. In order to determine these functions, we have to
await the results of scientific experiments to be done on them. But
evolutionist prejudice, with its longstanding misleading claims about
junk DNA, has kept this logic from becoming disseminated in the
public domain. In the past 10 years especially, research has shown
that evolutionists are wrong and their claims imaginary. The non-
coding part of DNA is not "junk" as the evolutionists claim, but on
the contrary, is now accepted as a "genomic treasure." 82

Paul Nelson, who received his Ph.D. from the University of
Chicago, is one of the leading exponents of the anti-evolutionist move-
ment. In an article titled "The Junk Dealer Ain't Selling That No More,"
he describes the collapse of the evolutionists' theory of junk DNA:
Carl Sagan [one of the proponents of atheism] argued that "genetic
junk," the "redundancies, stutters, [and] untranscribable nonsense"
in DNA, proved that there are "deep imperfections at the heart of
life". Such comments are commonplace in the biological litera-
ture—although perhaps less common than they were a
few years ago. The reason? Geneticists are discover-

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