Denying ENCODE Data Won't Change the Emerging Facts of Biology

Editor's note: This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on ENCODE that Casey Luskin has been publishing this year in Salvo Magazine. Parts 1, 2, and 3 have already been published. Part 4 will be published later this year. Part 1 can be found here at ENV.

As we've already seen, the ENCODE project found that 80 percent of the human genome is biochemically functional -- with 100 percent functionality in sight -- overturning the concept of junk DNA. Fearing the demise of a cherished argument, evolution...