@Outsideness perhaps of interest ==> http://www.panspermia.org/introns.htm
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@skilluminati@Outsideness Most junk DNA was eventually found to be regulatory, essentially meta-genes. Doubtless time to add introns.1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
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@Alrenous@skilluminati 'Most' -- I don't think so.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Outsideness@skilluminati Dawkins thinks so. http://egnorance.blogspot.com/2013/02/richard-dawkins-on-junk-dna-in-2009.html …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Outsideness@skilluminati My main point being that the junk DNA theory was an epic argument from ignorance, and the culture hasn't changed.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@Outsideness@skilluminati A more recent study says, "We were off by four times, but we've totally got it right this time you guys."1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Outsideness@skilluminati Hence one of my catchphrases, evolution is smarter than evolutionary biologists.1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
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@Outsideness@skilluminati Imagine non-baryonic matter was called junk existence because they didn't predict it and don't know what it does.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@Alrenous@skilluminati I've had this convo. before with Jayman, so there's a tedium factor -- which, by coincidence, is exactly the point.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@Alrenous @skilluminati ... Huge stretches of junk DNA consists of extremely simple, massively replicated series, for e.g. ATAT... x 10,000
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@Alrenous@skilluminati If you saw an alien program that just repeated 0101 a million times, would you think it was doing something amazing?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Alrenous@skilluminati (Much) Junk DNA looks like obvious junk. It isn't just that we don't know what it does.3 replies 1 retweet 1 like - 3 more replies
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