(November 17, 2018 at 12:22 am)CDF47 Wrote:(November 16, 2018 at 11:58 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: If DNA is proof of a deity then it's a mad god. The genome reads like a bookshelf that was tipped into a wood chipper and then fed through a cement mixer. Genes are scattered everywhere, mixed with pseudogenes, endogenous retroviri, and a thousand other flavours of non-coding rubbish. The genes themselves are littered with introns that have to be excised for them to make any sense. It all looks suspiciously organic.
85 percent of DNA serves a function as non-coding DNA.
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The majority of non-coding DNA doesn't appear to be conserved, so it's hard to imagine it serving any function beyond randomly evolving in the background.
Even if you're right, it doesn't help your case any. The genome is still a nightmare to read and no intelligent designer would have built it in such a slip-shod fashion.