More Functions Reported for Repeat “Junk” DNA

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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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Zombie Metaphysics: Dawkins Versus Pope Leo

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This casual devaluing of consciousness is actually intertwined with the rush to ascribe it to AI. The ultimate conclusion is the same. Source
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Why Meaning Overcomes the Materialist View

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The quasi-scientific abstraction that glibly asserts our being “nothing more” than particle interactions is as wrong as it is right. Source
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Günter Bechly and the “Species Pair” Problem

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Asian elephants (like the one at the top of this page) and their African counterparts apparently diverged about 8 million years ago. Source
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Physicist Overstates the “Gradual” Nature of Human Origins in the Fossil Record

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We’ve gone back and forth with Dr. Barr many times in the past. Mainstream paleoanthropologists acknowledge that the origin of humans is sudden and abrupt. Source
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Luskin: If Aliens Exist, They Were Designed Just Like We Were

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I’m an agnostic on these purported technologically super-advanced creatures with their physics-defying crafts. Source
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After K–T Extinction Event, Life’s Unexpected Rebound Was “Ridiculously Fast”

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Although the welfare of plankton may not be at the very top of most people’s minds, these tiny organisms fill an important ecological niche. Source
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Geneticist W. E. Lönnig on Human-Chimp DNA Similarity, and Much More

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"The same people who admit that they are unable to create a single blade of grass tell you that they are absolutely sure they know how it came about." Source
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Requiem for an Artificial Superintelligence

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On the morning of his upload, he signed transfer papers, redundancy protocols, continuity covenants, and one handwritten page that no lawyer saw. Source
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Why AI Won’t Replace Us Spiritually

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AI systems increasingly resemble human intelligence. But resemblance alone does not make them image bearers. It cannot. AI systems do not represent God. Source
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