By: Randy Stimpson

Randy Stimpson — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:14:38 +0000

Some people don’t move on, especially prominent atheist bloggers who use junk DNA as one of their favorite talking points. For example:

“Most of our genome is still junk in spite of what the ENCODE Consortium says.” — Larry Moran

And look at this youtube video of PZ Myers pontificating about junk DNA just 9 months before ENCODE published their results.

And consider these comments about ENCODE by PZ Myers:

“That conclusion, that 80% of the genome is critical to function, is simply false, and it’s the notorious dishonest heart of ENCODE’s conclusions.”

“… it makes me mistrust the entire data set — not only are the papers dense, but I have no confidence in the interpretations of the authors …”

“I’ll be blunt. I don’t think Birney has a clue about the biology.”

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