Francis Collins's Junk DNA Arguments Pushed Into Increasingly Small Gaps in Scientific Knowledge

Recently I wrote an article explaining that both atheistic and theistic evolutionists have relied heavily on "junk DNA" -- specifically pseudogenes -- to argue against intelligent design (ID). In his 2006 book The Language of God, leading theistic evolutionist Francis Collins made such an argument, claiming that caspase-12 is a functionless pseudogene and asks, "why would God have gone to the trouble of inserting such a nonfunctional gene in this precise location?" (p. 139) Logan G...