Page 149 - Once Upon a Time There Was Darwinism

Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

Just three weeks after pseudogenes were re-
vealed to have a biological function after all, a study in
the May 23, 2003 issue of Science dealt another severe blow

to the idea of junk DNA 100 revealing yet another function of the
non-coding DNA. Evolutionists apprised of all these develop-
ments had no other choice but to accept that the time had come to
"junk" their concept of junk DNA. The title of an article by
Wojciech Makalowski of Pennsylvania State University shows the
change: "Not Junk After All." Makalowski sums up the situation in
these words:

. . . [T]he view of junk DNA, especially repetitive elements, began to
change in the early 1990s. Now, more and more biologists regard
repetitive elements as a genomic treasure. . . These two papers
demonstrate that repetitive elements are not useless junk DNA but
rather are important, integral components of eukaryotic genomes. . .
Therefore, repetitive DNA should be called not junk DNA. . . 101

Once upon a time, you may have heard a lot about the idea of
junk DNA and the evolutionist speculations connected with it.
But as outlined here, Darwinism's last assertion of "vestigial-
ity"—junk DNA—has passed into history, and this last flutter of
Darwinism has also been discredited.

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