Mining Gold from "Junk" DNA
There are lessons to be learned from the concept of "junk" DNA, including hubris, deep time, and bad assumptions. Fundamentally-flawed presuppositions play a big part. Believers in fish-to-fool evolution tend to assume naturalism and build from there. Big mistake.
DNA just had to keep evolving by chance and random processes over time. Scientists sequenced the human genome and found that almost none of it coded for proteins, therefore, it was useless leftovers from our supposed evolutionary past. This led to medical and scientific train wrecks.
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| 1895 train photo at Wikimedia Commons, Papa Darwin's image is found all over the web, DNA image from openclipart |
In their haste to have their biases confirmed, secularists significantly delayed research in those areas of DNA (what with it being junk and all), but are finally realizing it is not junk at all. Indeed, some of those regions need to be investigated for treatment of Alzheimer's, and it is good for the heart — among other things. The logical conclusion is that the Master Engineer knows exactly how to design organisms, and scientists need to make that presupposition. Then they can stop hindering medical science.
What is junk DNA? It is the name for nonfunctional DNA. The belief that only a fraction of the human genome could be functional dates back to the late 1940s. The reason for this idea was laboratory evidence showing that the mutation rate in all life, including humans, was very high. If a large fraction of those mutations were deleterious, as the evidence indicated, the mutation load would eventually result in the extinction of all life. Therefore, the mutation load would be intolerable if all the DNA were functional. The conclusion was, a large amount of junk DNA must exist, and mutations in the junk DNA would not adversely affect survival. Only mutations in the functional would be a problem.
You would do well to read the rest of this interesting article at "Junk DNA Is Slowly Revealing Its Secrets."