I gather you can't find it, either? I mean this:
Secular biology, intelligent design, and creationist communities are abuzz with the recently reported data from 30 simultaneously published high-profile research papers in the field of human genomics, proclaiming that the human genome is irreducibly complex and intelligently designed.1 From an evolutionary perspective, this is a massive blow to the myth of “junk DNA.”
If you didn't actually read this, where did you get the story? BTW, I was an undergraduate in the 60s, and even then, scientists knew that some "junk DNA" had functions in the genome. So, I'm pretty sure the guys who sold you that story, aren't very up on genetics.
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Found the story. Not from ENCODE. It came from the ICR, a creationist organization. And they just made up the blurb you copied. No one at ENCODE supported those conclusions.
This is pure nonsense barbarian. The ENCODE paper said:
"The vast majority (80.4%) of the human genome participates in at least one biochemical RNA- and/or chromatin-associated event in at least one cell type. Much of the genome lies close to a regulatory event:
95% of the genome lies within 8 kilobases (kb) of a DNA–protein interaction (as assayed by bound ChIP-seq motifs or DNase I footprints),
and 99% is within 1.7 kb of at least one of the biochemical events measured by ENCODE."
Those figures entirely justify the ICR comments, and show that the 'junk DNA' idea is completely nonsensical. I note that ICR does not say that they are 'quoting' or 'citing' the ENCODE paper.
They are merely making use of the facts ENCODE discovered, and your remarks about ICR are entirely unjustifiable.
Let me add my twopennyworth here with this citation:
"We report the existence of 51,197 ERV-derived promoter sequences that initiate transcription within the human genome, including 1743 cases where transcription is initiated from ERV sequences that are located in gene proximal promoter or 5' untranslated regions (UTRs).
[…]
Our analysis revealed that retroviral sequences in the human genome encode tens-of-thousands of active promoters; transcribed ERV sequences correspond to 1.16% of the human genome sequence and PET tags that capture transcripts initiated from ERVs cover 22.4% of the genome.
These data suggest that ERVs may regulate human transcription on a large scale."
(Andrew B. Conley, Jittima Piriyapongsa and I. King Jordan, "Retroviral promoters in the human genome," Bioinformatics, Vol. 24(14):1563–1567 (2008).)
So the 'junk DNA' idea is now shown to be total nonsense - junk in fact - and you'd do well to trash that nonsense.
So bang goes a big prop of the 'apes and mankind share a 'common ancestor' ' theory. You'll soon have nothing left. Emperor's new clothes anybody?
Nice thing about science. It moves on, and kicks tripe in the behind sooner or later.