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On this episode of ID the Future<\/strong>, Dr. Cornelius Hunter, author of Science’s Blind Spot: The Unseen Religion of Scientific Naturalism<\/em><\/a>, talks about new findings on so-called \u201cjunk\u201d DNA. Evolutionary theory predicts lots of such \u201cDarwinian detritus\u201d that does nothing for organisms. That prediction keeps coming up false. \u201cSatellite DNA\u201d was one form of DNA thought to be junk, and left on the back burner by researchers. But now it\u2019s been found to be both crucial \u2014 for the fertility of male fruit flies \u2014 and species-specific. Evolutionary theory expected none of this, though it gamely accommodate it, Hunter explains. How? By moving the goalposts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Cornelius Hunter, author of Science’s Blind Spot: The Unseen Religion of Scientific Naturalism, talks about new findings on so-called \u201cjunk\u201d DNA. Evolutionary theory predicts lots of such \u201cDarwinian detritus\u201d that does nothing for organisms. That prediction keeps coming up false. \u201cSatellite DNA\u201d was one form of DNA thought to be junk, and left on the back burner by researchers. But now it\u2019s been found to be both crucial \u2014 for the fertility of male fruit flies \u2014 and species-specific. Evolutionary theory expected none of this, though it gamely accommodate it, Hunter explains. How? By moving the goalposts.","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":34650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","sync_status":"synced","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/episodes.castos.com\/id\/IDTF-1227-Cornelius-Hunter-on-More-Junk-DNA-That-Turned-Out-To-Be-Crucial.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"154170","podmotor_episode_id":"136945","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:14:39","filesize":"10.1 mb","filesize_raw":"10551643","date_recorded":"2019-06-17","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"1227","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"full","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2365,314,525,562,880,1970,1971,1972,1973,1673],"series":[7227],"speaker":[],"class_list":["post-35044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-__edited","tag-common-descent","tag-encode-project","tag-evolution","tag-junk-dna","tag-paradigm-shifts","tag-satellite-dna","tag-scientific-paradigms","tag-simon-foundation","tag-thomas-kuhn","series-intelligent-design-the-future"],"acf":[],"author_names":["Cornelius G. Hunter"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/idthefuture-cover.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-download\/35044\/1227.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/35044\/1227.mp3","audio_player":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/35044\/1227.mp3<\/a><\/audio>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/feed\/podcast\/intelligent-design-the-future","embedCode":"

Cornelius Hunter on More \u201cJunk\u201d DNA That Turned Out To Be Crucial<\/a><\/blockquote>