Junk DNA Has a Vital Role After All

30 May 2009

Inside everyone of your cells lies the most complicated piece of software ever written. The code is so complex that although we know the language it is written in (adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C) and thymine (T)), we still don't know how to read it nor do we know how most of it functions. “Most people do not realize that all our genes only comprise about 3% of the total human genome. The rest is basically one large black box”, says Kevin Verstrepen, heading the research team from the VIB laboratory of Systems Biology, K.U.Leuven.

For years many evolutionists have been using so called 'Junk DNA' as an proof of evolution, saying it is the evolutionary remnant of previous ancestors that is no longer needed. This research team (along with several others in the past years) shows another empirical proof that the extra DNA does actually do something so now 'Junk DNA' can rest in the field with all the other debunked vestigial organs.

In an experiment where the researchers tested the adaptability of yeast cells that were missing the repeating sections of 'Junk DNA' they found the normal cells were able to survive better. “If this was the real world” the researchers say “only cells with the repeats would be able to swiftly adapt to changes, thereby beating their repeat-less counterparts in the game of evolution. Their junk DNA saved their lives”.

Once again science has confirmed a truth that is taught in the scripture, that we aren't just random collections with extra particles but we have been intricately designed to survive. Do we now put our trust in this experiment and use it as a platform to show the Bible is a book of science? No...

Science comes and science goes. In the next year fifty new experiments will be published, each one of them blaspheming the name of God by taking the glory He deserves for creating the world and giving it to the idol of 'mother nature' who evolved the world. Dr. Cary Parker, an author of several science textbooks on DNA, once said, “Maybe you've has some one say to you, 'You can't take the Bible as a textbook of science'. I like to say your right about that, I've written five textbooks of science and they've all had to be rewritten.”

The field of modern science was founded by people that believed that God created this planet in a reasonable way so that we can experiment to find out how this world operates. Our experiments may be right or our experiments may be wrong but the Word of God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. We don't put our trust in the achievements of this world, but we put our trust in the one who created this world.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/324/5931/1213