Casey Luskin Reflects on His Recent Junk DNA Debate

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🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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For decades we were told that non-coding regions of our DNA are littered with evolutionary junk. But in recent years, numerous discoveries have revealed that function is the rule, not the exception, in the genome. On this episode of ID The Future, Casey Luskin reflects with host Jonathan McLatchie about his recent debate over junk DNA with Rutgers University evolutionary biology professor Dr. Daniel Stern Cardinale, known as Dr. Dan online. Luskin breaks down the main points he made in his debate as well as Dr. Dan's responses. He and McLatchie conclude with a reminder of why intelligent design is a far superior approach to studying the genome than an evolutionary approach. Source

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0:00.0	I. D. the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.3	Hello and welcome to I do other side of the interview today I'm going to be in conversation with Casey Luskin
0:20.1	about a debate he recently did with an evolution or biology professor from Rutgers University, Dr
0:25.9	Daniel Stern Cardinale, who online goes by the name Dr. Dan. Dr. Dan hosts a YouTube channel
0:32.1	called Creation Myths where he interviews various proponents of intelligent design and offers criticism of design arguments.
0:39.0	So Kasey is great to have you in the program today. Welcome along.
0:42.0	Yeah, thank you so much, Jonathan.
0:43.4	It's great to do this sort of retrospective on the debate
0:46.1	and talk about what happened.
0:48.1	Yeah, absolutely.
0:49.4	So maybe you could tell our listeners who Dr. Dan is
0:52.4	and how this debate came about.
0:54.6	Yeah, so Dr. Daniel Stern-Cardnale is an evolutionary biologist at Rutgers University,
0:59.3	as you said. He has a YouTube channel called Creation Mythths, where he has a following.
1:04.3	I think he does lots of critiques of intelligent design people and creationists and that sort of thing.
1:09.8	And the debate came about because we put up a long story short video about a month ago
1:14.0	a month ago on the topic of junk DNA.
1:16.0	And Dr. Dan, as he goes by on his YouTube channel,
1:20.0	put up a video critiquing our junk DNA video with long story short and of course we then
1:26.2	responded I actually put up a comment on our YouTube video and I responded to his comment
1:30.8	and then he wrote a response and eventually we got in a dialogue with the host of a
1:35.8	skeptic podcast on YouTube called the non-sequeter show with Steve McCray and Steve offered to invite Dr Dan and I to do a debate on his YouTube channel on the
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