The Intelligent Design community has been bragging about a supposedly true prediction they made: that ‘junk DNA’ would turn out to have a function. If you recall, ‘junk DNA’ or non-coding DNA, is DNA that does not code for proteins, and some it of it (but not all of it) is thought to be leftovers of evolutionary history. Now it turns out that at least some noncoding DNA does have a function (which isn’t surprising, evolutionary biologists themselves have been saying that for years). To see the Intelligent Design myth busted, I’d suggest PZ Myers’ Skepticon talk here and a new scientific paper published here.
