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function (Design!) found for non-coding DNA!Evolutionists have claimed for a long time that the presence of large amounts of non-coding DNA (up to 97% in humans) in the genomes of eukaryotes precludes intelligent design (and the role of a Creator). Two evolutionary theories (the "junk" DNA and "selfish" DNA) have been disproved by a recent study that has found that non-coding DNA is a vital structural component of the nucleus of cells. Read more about it in "Designing Times." Related story, "When 'Junk' DNA Isn't Junk." (from The Evolution Pages)
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Neanderthal baby attacks evolutionary dogmaStepping out 29,000 years from the past, a Neanderthal baby has taught evolutionists a thing or two about human origins, and strengthened the case for special creation. In a recently-published study, scientists extracted mtDNA from a Neanderthal infant skeleton found in the northern Caucasus near the Black Sea and laid to rest any question of whether Neanderthals could have been our ancestors. A previous study had examined a 397 base pair Neanderthal mtDNA fragment and compared it with a mtDNA sequence of 986 nucleotide pairs from living humans of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The results showed an enormous 26 nucleotide base pair difference between the Neanderthal and Human mtDNA (a 6.5% difference, which is almost as much as the average difference between human mtDNA and chimpanzee mtDNA, which is 8.9%). In this region of the mtDNA, modern humans differ from one another in an average of eight base pairs, and those differences were completely independent of the 26 observed for the Neanderthal fossil. In the current study, a 357 base pair sequence of mtDNA was examined and found to vary from modern human sequences at 23 bases (6.4%), nineteen of which were identical to those of the first Neanderthal. A summary of the findings of the two studies can be found in the table below:
The analysis of the infant's DNA was extremely important, since it was dated at 29,000 years ago - only 1000 years before the last Neanderthal disappeared. If Neanderthals and humans had interbred, one should have expected to see this in the last remnants of the Neanderthals. In addition, since the two Neanderthal fossils were separated geographically by over 2,500 km, it shows that Neanderthals were a homogeneous species that was distinct from ancient humans. The differences between Neanderthals and modern humans were so great that calculations indicated that the last common ancestor between modern man and Neanderthal must have been between 550,000 to 690,000 years ago (first study) and 365,000 and 853,000 years ago (second study). Igor V. Ovchinnikov, I.V., A. Gotherstrom, G. P. Romanovak, V. M. Kharitonov, K. Liden, and W. Goodwin. 2000. Molecular analysis of Neanderthal DNA from the northern Caucasus. Nature 404: 490-493.
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The Improbable Design of the Earth |
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An Estimate of the Probability for Attaining the Necessary Parameters for Life Support
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