Comments on: Something enjoyable for those among us who think Andrew Sullivan is an intellectual fraud and tyrant http://www.bookwormroom.com/2012/09/11/something-enjoyable-for-those-among-us-who-think-andrew-sullivan-is-an-intellectual-fraud-and-tyrant/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Sun, 26 May 2013 03:50:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Earl http://www.bookwormroom.com/2012/09/11/something-enjoyable-for-those-among-us-who-think-andrew-sullivan-is-an-intellectual-fraud-and-tyrant/comment-page-1/#comment-145926 Earl Wed, 12 Sep 2012 22:10:32 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=24156#comment-145926  
Another example of this kind of “thinking” in people committed to a particular point of view has recently appeared.  Despite the testimony of many folks who now deny ever labeling any part of the human genome as “junk”, it was widely cited as strong evidence in favor of the materialistic origin of the code, and against the hypothesis of design.  Truth will out, of course, and it’s a good day for a lot of people who valued logic over ideology.
 

http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/09/junk_no_more_en_1064001.html

Junk No More: ENCODE Project Nature Paper Finds “Biochemical Functions for 80% of the Genome”
A groundbreaking paper in Nature reports the results of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, which has detected evidence of function for the “vast majority” of the human genome. Titled “An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome,” the paper finds an “unprecedented number of functional elements,” where “a surprisingly large amount of the human genome” appears functional. Based upon current knowledge, the paper concludes that at least 80% of the human genome is now known to be functional:
 
 
The article in Nature referred to appears here:
http://www.nature.com/news/encode-the-human-encyclopaedia-1.11312

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