Junk DNA and Intelligent Design
A big topic in the evolution/creationism debate relates to the concept of so-called "Junk DNA". IDists pretend that they predicted junk DNA would have a function, and they pretend that evolution predicts it would not. Therefore, so they say, the recent findings that much of junk DNA has a function supports ID and refutes evolution. Spoiler alert: They are lying. What Is Junk DNA? Junk DNA refers to any DNA that does not code for proteins, of which there is a lot. It is also called non-coding DNA, which is perhaps a better term. About 98% of human DNA is non-coding. A good primer can be found here . This web page has an image that compares the number of base-pairs in various animal species, from 1.1 billion in Anne's humming bird, to 3.4 in humans, to 4.3 in a sea cucumber, all the way up to 8.22 in Red viscacha rat. A plant, Paris japonica, has 150 billion base-pairs, while Polychaos dubium, a freshwater amoeboid, may have 670 base-pairs, about 200 times more than huma