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Once Upon a Time
There Was Darwinism

5. The discovery of non-coding DNA's role in
the development of an embryo

There is proof that during development, non-coding DNA
plays a major role in regulating the gene expression (the process by

which a gene's coded information is converted into the structures
present and operating in the cell). Various studies have shown that
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non-coding DNA plays a role in the development of photoreceptor
cells , of the reproductive tract , and the central nervous system. 94
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All this shows that non-coding DNA plays vital roles in embryogene-
sis, or embryonic development.

6. Introns (considered as junk DNA segments) have been shown
to play a vital role in cell functioning.

For years, evolutionists thought introns, which are squeezed be-
tween functional genes and are spliced out in the process of produc-
ing proteins, to be junk DNA, but only later discovered their
importance.
At first, evolutionists thought that introns had no role in the pro-
duction of proteins and regarded them as merely junk. However, re-

search has proven that they play a vitally important role and today,
introns are recognized as "a complex mix of different DNA, much of
which are vital to the life of the cell." 95
A short but interesting article in the science column of The New
York Times exposed the errors of evolutionists with regard to introns.
In "DNA: Junk or Not?," C. Claiborne Ray sums up the results of
research on introns:

For years, more and more research has, in fact, suggested that
introns are not junk but influence how genes work. . . in-
trons do have active roles. 96

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