Paper in Cell Reports “Paradigm Shift” Against TEs as “Genomic Parasites or Junk DNA”

autoimmune disease, biology, biomarkers, cancer, Cell (journal), disease, dysregulation, Evolution, exons, gene enhancers, gene expression, gene regulatory networks, gene silencers, genetics, genome architecture, genome organization, human genome, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, lncRNAs, mammalian DNA, methylation, Nature (journal), neurodegeneration, non-coding RNAs, promoters, repetitive DNA, RNA, Science (journal), splicing regulators, transposable elements
This language is remarkable coming from a journal often considered the third most important in the world for biology. Source
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Michael Denton’s Work Shows ETs in UFOs Would Not Exist in a Purposeless Universe

atmosphere, biology, carbon, combustion, computer chips, cosmos, disclosure, Disclosure Day, Discovery Institute Press, earth sciences, Earth’s crust, environmental fitness, extraterrestrials, fire, Goldilocks Zone, government, hominins, Homo erectus, hydrological cycle, Intelligent Design, knuckle-walking, lasers, magnets, metallurgy, metals, Michael Denton, oxygen molecules, photosynthesis, Planetology, plant matter, PLOS ONE, primal blueprint, purpose, respiration, semiconductors, South Africa, space, spacecraft, Steven Spielberg, sugars, Technology, The Miracle of Man, tools, trees, UFOs, universe, Wonderwerk Cave, wood
Fire is a central part of human existence, and it’s a necessary requirement for building technology, whether primitive or complex. Source
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More Functions Reported for Repeat “Junk” DNA

biology, CCCTC-binding factor, DNA, DNA structure, function, G-quadruplex, G4s, gene expression, genetics, genome, genome topology, guanine, humans, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, minisatellite, non-B DNA, pericentromeric repeats, PNAS, repetitive DNA, telomeres, telomeric repeats, topologically associating domains
Papers note that repetitive DNA — the type of DNA that our junk-DNA-defending friends assure us must be functionless — is vital for forming G4 structures. Source
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I Want to Write a Book About Intelligent Design. What Should I Do?

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The books that filled these shelves, arranged in no special order, came from anywhere and everywhere around the globe. Source
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Cosmos and Life: Everything Points to a Paradigm Shift

biology, Canceled Science, Charles Darwin, cosmology, documentary, geocentric model, Intelligent Design, John von Neumann, laboratory, lies, materialistic worldview, natural causes, naturalistic universe, origin of life, planetary orbits, puddle, reality, scientific knowledge, solar system, spontaneous generation, stagnant water, swamp, The Story of Everything, truth
Why would most people avoid drinking stagnant water from a puddle or a swamp? Probably not for fear of ingesting some dissolved salts or minerals. Source
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What Is Consciousness For? Sixteen Theories Take a Crack at the Question

Albert Newen, anole lizards, Antonella Tramacere, Antonio Damasio, Axel Cleeremans, biology, Carlos Montemayor, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, Dogs, Eva Jablonka, Experience, Gianmarco Maldarelli, horses, Jacques Singer, Jonathan Birch, Jonathon D. Crystal, Julio Hechavarria, Kristin Andrews, Krzysztof Dołęga, Lars Chittka, Léa Moncoucy, Lucia Melloni, Maxime Janbon, memory, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, Nicholas Humphrey, Noam Miller, Olga Dyakova, Onur Güntürkün, philosophy, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Royal Society, Sarah Skeels, self-awareness, Simon Alexander Burns Brown, Simona Ginsburg, T.S. Eliot, Yuranny Cabral-Calderin, zoology
It sounds like we do not really know what we are looking for, which will doubtless complicate efforts to find it. Source
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“Peptideins”? Give Those Shorties Another Look

amino acids, annotation, automated sequence annotation programs, bachelors, biologists, biology, common descent, conservation, Evolution, evolutionary conservation, functional status, gymnasium, Intelligent Design, John Mattick, Nature (journal), neologisms, open reading frame, peptide, phone number, protein, shared inter-taxon similarity
Picture short, lonely bachelors in rented formal wear, leaning on the wall, nervously checking their watches at the annotation dance. Source
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Stop Signals in Disguise: How the Genetic Code Guards Against Frameshifts

alternative codes, amino acids, aspartic acid, biology, codon family, codons, deletions, frameshift, frameshift mutations, genetic code, genetics, glutamic acid, indels, insertions, Intelligent Design, mapping system, nucleotides, optimization, parameters, stop codons, translation, triplets
A frameshift mutation occurs as the result of indels (insertions or deletions) of a number of nucleotides that is non-divisible by three. Source
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The Story of Everything Dazzled Me: I Wasn’t Prepared

archival material, audience, Big Bang, biology, Brian Keating, Cambridge University, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Doubt, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, Eric Esau, Evolution, Faith & Science, filmmakers, films, Frank Tipler, Hollywood, intelligence, Intelligent Design, James Tour, John Lennox, materialism, Michael Behe, molecular machines, nano-technology, Nobel laureates, Peter Thiel, Poverty Inc., prizes, Return of the God Hypothesis, screener, Signature in the Cell, software, Stephen Meyer, storytelling, The Privileged Planet, The Story of Everything, thinkers, universe, William Dembski
I’ve worked on successful documentary films, including a 2014 feature-length film that won multiple prizes; I’m not easily impressed. Source
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The Living Nano-Factory: Darwinists Ignore the Ultimate Information Enigma

alien intelligence, alphabetic letters, amino acids, biology, coded instructions, Contact (movie), DNA, Ellie Arroway, Evolution, extraterrestrial life, Francis Crick, information, information enigma, intelligent agent, Intelligent Design, James Tour, James Watson, material universe, molecular biology, molecules, prime numbers, protein synthesis, Scientific community, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything
Information and orderly processes don’t happen by accident any more than a factory production line organizes itself out of unassembled constituent parts. Source
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