I. D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

For decades we've been told that only a tiny percentage of DNA is functional and that the vast majority is useless junk.

Though this claim never made any sense from an engineering standpoint in the first place, it served as a powerful

myth to push the narrative that were simply the result of unguided, undirected natural processes,

a long string of mistakes and copying errors that left its imprint in the form of

pervasive junk DNA. Welcome to ID the future. I'm your host Eric Anderson and

today with Dr. Casey Luskin will be unpacking the myth of junk DNA.

Listeners will know Dr. Luskin as our associate director at Discovery Institute Center for Science and Culture.

He holds a law degree from the University of San Diego,

a bachelor's and a master's in Earth Sciences, and a

PhD in geology from the University of Johannesburg.

He has spoken and written extensively on evolution and intelligent design and has contributed to or edited more books than I can mention.

Welcome Casey.

Oh, thanks so much for having me, Eric.

Yeah, really glad to have you here to talk about this wonderful topic.

There was a video series that a lot of listeners will know called long story short and I think the most recent

or one of the most recent videos was a great video on the myth of junk DNA.

Tell me a little bit about, I'd encourage

listeners to go check it out, but tell us a little bit about

that video, Casey, what led to that video

and why did you decide to focus on this particular concept?

Yeah, so this latest myth of junk DNA video in our long story short series

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