The Power of the New Intelligent Design...

There are GC biases in mutations, but you are essentially right. If there is enough time since common ancestry then the accumulated mutations in each lineage will reduce any similarity to random noise in junk DNA. You are forgetting about sequence conservation due to natural selection.

Your inability to address the evidence is noted.

And how does natural selection preserve sequences in junk DNA? If sequences were beneficial, it would not be junk, so your excuse is just worthless and hopelessly flawed. Do you have anything better, or is this the best you can do to explain the huge difference between data and model?

It doesn't. It conserves sequence in functional DNA. When genomes of very distantly related species are compared the only bits that have recognizable similarity is functional DNA, not junk DNA.

If 90% is junk and 10% is functional for such distant relatives, then DNA similarity should be around 10% + ¼×90% = 32.5%. Not around 50%.

There are a lot of science y things that I dont fully understand as I read through these arguments. Perhaps you can Dredge up some insight for me!First of all, why do you call "them" Darwinoids? Charles Darwin was but one scientist who happened to originate a theory. He is hardly the Einstein or Edison of Biology! Am I wrong? Are you suggesting that ole Slew foot messes with peoples heads or are you suggesting that he mixes up the evidence?Our very own dwise1 is one of the EvC members whom I respect and admire. He has a website where he has argued and investigated the claims of Creationists for 37 years. I dont agree with him on everything but I respect him because he respects us. He will take the time to write a detailed lengthy post filled with anecdotes from a life well lived. Furthermore, the God whom I believe exists (through the character of Jesus Christ) is present on this planet today. What many people (especially Authoritarian Catholics and Protestants) would find implausible is the idea that Jesus uses dwise1 to get us to think. God works in mysterious ways, Dredge.Now...what were you saying about "Darwinoids"?

Why 1/4 DNA? You are talking DNA? It is ALL DNA: junk + functional.

What conclusions do you draw from this data?

Science is too puny and shallow to even detect Satan's existence.

Off topic

That is my fault. As we know the human mind is so powerful we can vanquish any gods and their minions to oblivion with a simple thought.I did that to your god ages ago and your satan disappeared along with him. Poof!Science cannot find something that isn't there. All science can do now is note the lack of evidence and conclude that your god and his satan are nowhere to be found and, infact, never were.I know, I took away your pet demon and eating all your jesus-meat crackers hasn't brought him back to you. I realize this makes you sad and lonely. Such is the religious life devoid of reality. That was your choice.

Are you referring to the urban legend that humans and bananas share 50% of their DNA? I hope you realize that humans and bananas don't share 50% of their DNA. At best, humans and bananas share 50% of their genes, although that is even questionable. Of the genes that are shared, there are going to be bases that are different.Added in edit:An article worth reading:

quote:

---

The second thing to keep in mind is that genes, which are the regions of the DNA that code for these proteins, only make up 2 percent of your DNA.

​

For this particular experiment, scientists first looked at the sequences of genes in a typical banana genome. "We then used these DNA sequences to predict the amino acid sequence of all the proteins that would be made from those genes," Brody says, noting that the protein sequences were placed in a file. "We then did the same process for all human genes."

​

Next, the scientists compared the protein sequence from each banana gene to every human gene. "The program compares how similar the sequence of the banana genes are to each human gene," he says, noting that the degree of similarity could range 0 to 100 percent. "The program kept any matches that were more similar than one would expect by chance." The program continued doing this, gene by gene.

​

All told, more than 4 million comparisons were done, resulting in about 7,000 best "hits" between the two genomes. Then, the percent similarity score for each of those hits was averaged. "This gave us the result of about 40 percent," he says. "This is the average similarity between proteins (gene products), not genes." Gene products or proteins are the biochemical material resulting from a gene becoming functional. "Of course, there are many, many genes in our genome that do not have a recognizable counterpart in the banana genome and vice versa."
Do People and Bananas Really Share 50 Percent of the Same DNA? | HowStuffWorks

---

So science can't detect supernatural entities, got it.So much for the power of intelligent design then.Mutate and Survive

aka wilful denial and delusion. But it ain't that powerful ... any fool can do it.

ID claims to detect the existence of demons? I didn't know that.